There is no such thing as a free press : -- and we need one more than ever / by Mick Hume.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hume, Mick.

Series:

Societas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of the press--Great Britain.

Freedom of the press.

Journalism--Great Britain.

Journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it makes it. From the phone-hacking scandal to rows about press regulation, super-injunctions, leaks, libel and privacy laws, the power of the Murdoch empire, and the future of the BBC, the media has become the story. The British press is in crisis and under scrutiny as never before. In the fall-out from ...

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Preface; Body matter; 1: "I Believe in a Free Press, But..."; 2: Whose Ethics Are They Anyway?; 3: Fear and Loathing of the Popular; 4: Why Blame "the Meejah"?; 5: Here is the News: Journalism as Narcissism; 6: Leveson's Mission - Purging the Press; 7: Manifesto for a Free Press; Back matter; Other titles available from Imprint Academic and Andrews UK

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-69259-7

1-84540-352-5

OCLC:

810317839