THE LAMPS in Parliament Square shimmer across the Thames, the camera moves to Big Ben, close-up, it's ten o'clock - Bong! - The familiar voice of Reginald Bosanquet 'MP's pay rise endangers the Contract' - Bong! *Royal Family squares up for a massive wage claim' - Bong! - 'British Leyland's future threatened by huge dividend payouls'. Why ITN's News at Ten has never occun use tour may scol obvious, just as obvious as thi distortions in the versions of th news that we do see on 1 and i the press. Yet the most obvious are often the most dangerou assive ('Nothin bout it at least till the prolera:
storms Bush House and th arricades go up in Fleet Street Knowing that most news items are grossly biased doesn't give us any immunity from their intlu(audience research shows that TV i the main source of news for the majority of the population).
Over the last few years debates media have at last esterdad their frame on reference whether daws. Media studies departments have been set up in a number of universities, the TUC has bezub discussing anti-trade union bias Ena Sharples Watch Out! In the near de ene paying wisir to Coronation Street Revichs D7 other televinion serier are wel THS DISHNSSOR ANS correctly argued for trade unions to monitor the news.
muddled liberalism (at best) hav Tee Lane vone i heen churned our by committees Future of Broadcasting, the Wil son working party report on the tbe Royal Com mission on the Press, and so on And, most significantly, variou ampaigas AT SEALER O CAR enge the racism and sexiam ol the media and to fight for an end the war in Ireland.
BAD NEWS Tride Unions and the Media is ebates, It contains tea essays g working in media sodia (particularly the Glasgow Group, whe produced Bad News - a study of media bias that ITN tried 10 ban) or mechers of winis wan expenence or arrack: by the media (local governnicar students, agriculture workens).
The most aseful parts of tbe tooled ete of and ris book poverage of industrial news based aver six months of 1975 gave 24.1 per cent of its general industry (which employs 2.1 per cent of the workforcel. Most of this was on Leyland.
In the same period, 94 refer ences to inflation gave wage-rises as the main cause, 33 suggested ering the Glasgow drivera strike on TV none o those on strike was interviewed.
Our of the 843 named interviewc09 00 Ty in the rst threr months of 1975 only 7.7 per pent were worden — and these were almost all from sports or entertainment.
make ir clear that the regula discontion of events (and a laci important is not the main probcol. It is more the way in which scructure in which opinions and Goveriment poli WOTHES inexplicable madness Media News is organised and coded within this structure shop bove the noise of machiner ven by the camera angles, Give the content equate - it is the shich will remain intact in spite fixed POWERFUL induserial The book also examines the increasing ionopolisation of the media, the The Gourdion alone national newspapers "consensus"
and struggles are acts of (Formerly 182 Pentanvibe Ra. NI shouting framework calls for independent nals and financial Tinks
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