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Contents (Seventh edition)

Part I - Press history * Whig press history as political mythology * The struggle for a free press * The ugly face of reform * The industrialization of the press * The era of the press barons * The press under public regulation * Fable of market democracy Part II - Broadcasting history * Reith and the denial of politics * Broadcasting and

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* Social revolution? * The BBC under threat * Class, taste & profit * How the audience is made * The first new media * Broadcasting roller-coaster Part III - Rise of new media * New media in Britain * History of the internet * Sociology of the internet Part IV - Theories of the media * Metabolising Britishness * Global understanding * The liberal theory of press freedom * Broadcasting and the theory of public service Part V - Politics of the media * Contradictions in media policy * Media reform: democratic choices Books about the media