Description
This book is a collection of essays that explore the public accountability of broadcasting. The book is divided into three sections: critical statements of the 'problems,' analyses of orthodox (regulatory) solutions, and explorations of the alternatives.
Provides an analytical overview of contemporary issues of the public accountability of broadcasting, as exemplified in the the area of television and radio news and current affairs and documentary. This volume of collected essays is a parallel text to the bestselling Sex, Lies and Democracy. The aim is to offer frameworks for the analysis of chiefly contemporary empirical evidence in three broad catagories: critical statements of the 'problems'; analyses of orthodox (regulatory) solutions; and explorations of the alternatives.