A critical history and contemporary overview of the Welsh media, this first work of its kind emphasizes the local impacts of media within the wider context of UK politics and industry. The study explores how media, culture, and communications intersect in everyday Welsh life and what this intersection means to issues of national identity, language, and geography. Media ownership issues are also addressed, along with developments in regional media policy and potential impacts of the National Assembly on Welsh media-related matters.

Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation

Literature & Fiction

Barlow, David

Mitchell, Philip

O'Malley, Tom

History & Criticism

University of Wales Press

A critical history and contemporary overview of the Welsh media, this analysis emphasizes the local impacts of media within the wider context of UK politics and industry. The ways that media, culture, and communications intersect in everyday Welsh life and what this intersection means to issues of national identity, language, and geography are explored. Media ownership issues are also addressed, along with developments in regional media policy and potential impacts of the National Assembly on Welsh media-related matters.

History

Europe

Closedown?: The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy 1979-92

Which factors shaped broadcasting policy in the 1980s and shaped the face of broadcasting for the 1990s? Has policy led to greater or less freedom for broadcasting? What does the development of policy in this period tell us about the relationship between broadcasting and state? This key for all those involved in media studies provides an assessment of the debates and legislation set in an historical context. Tom O'Malley, National Secretary of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, unearths the seeds of change in the industry by looking at the fractious relationship between the Conservative Party and broadcasters in the late 1970s, tracing economic and technological forces for change and examining the politics (particularly that of the New Right) which lay behind the impetus for legislation. The lobbyists for change from the electronics, advertising and media industries are investigated as are the intellectual lobbyists for deregulation. Opposition to the Broadcasting Act, which was determined and highly vocal, is assessed and its influence on the policy process examined. O'Malley also evaluates key documents in the broadcasting debate, the Hunt Report, the Cable and Broadcasting Act, the Peacock Report and the Broadcasting Act. After comparing UK developments with those in the USA and Western Europe, the book concludes by reflecting on events in the light of debates about the relationship between media and state.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Pluto Press

Regulating The Press

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy. Does this then give the press the right to print inaccurate material with relative impunity? Should the public have a statutory right of reply to inaccuracy in the press? And how free is the press in a world of converging technologies and crossmedia ownership? Clive Soley and Tom O’Malley set the issues of press regulation in their historical context, focusing on the period after 1945. They specifically look at the history and record of the Press Council and assess the performance of the Press Complaints Commission. The book analyses the arguments surrounding attempts to improve standards by introducing statutory rights for the public, and the reasons for the failure of these initiatives. Focusing on issues of principle such as accuracy, misrepresentation and privacy, the authors reexamine the ways in which debates over press freedom versus regulation illuminate the fundamental conflicts between a fully accountable press and the economic imperatives of the free market economy.

REGULATING THE PRESS

Social Sciences

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy. Does this then give the press the right to print inaccurate material with relative impunity? Should the public have a statutory right of reply to inaccuracy in the press? And how free is the press in a world of converging technologies and crossmedia ownership? Clive Soley and Tom O’Malley set the issues of press regulation in their historical context, focusing on the period after 1945. They specifically look at the history and record of the Press Council and assess the performance of the Press Complaints Commission. The book analyses the arguments surrounding attempts to improve standards by introducing statutory rights for the public, and the reasons for the failure of these initiatives. Focusing on issues of principle such as accuracy, misrepresentation and privacy, the authors reexamine the ways in which debates over press freedom versus regulation illuminate the fundamental conflicts between a fully accountable press and the economic imperatives of the free market economy.

Soley, Clive

By Lough Mask

Poetry

Beaver Row Press

Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media: Historical Perspectives (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores this role in more depth and with more attention paid to the complexities behind conventional analyses. Attention is paid to morality and regulation; empire and film; the role of women; authoritarianism; wartime and fears of treachery; and fears of cultural contamination. The book begins with essays that contextualise the theoretical and historiographical issues of the relationship between social fears, moral panics and the media. The second section provides case studies which illustrate the ways in which the media has participated in, or been seen as the source of, the creation of threats to society. Finally, the third section then shows how historical research calls into question simple assumptions about the relationship between the media and social disruption.

Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Routledge

God Betrayed: A Critique of the Catholic Church as an Institution

Religion & Spirituality

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