Live, Direct and Biased?
Making Television News in the Satellite Age
Published on 30. May 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-340-66225-0 (ISBN)
Description
A study of the changing face of television news, examining both the transmitted screen product and the newsgathering process which lies behind the broadcast bulletins viewers see every day. This book presents an analysis of how television reporting has changed in the age of 24 hour news service, outlining the circumstances of the new world of television journalism. It examines the world of rolling news received globally, a world where portable satellite dishes and phones, the fax, laptop computers, digital palmcorders and video-editing in a suitcase have changed the way news stories are reported. A detailed study of how the American networks, CNN and the British news services covered a pair of breaking stories is presented, as is an overview of the development of broadcast news from radio in the 1920s to CNN in the mid-1990s.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
maps
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
385 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-66225-0 (9780340662250)
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Content
More news, less understanding?; theories of news production from "Mr Gates" to market driven journalism; rhetoric and reality in 24 hour news; the history of television news and its institutions; international coverage of the bombing of the Baghdad "bunker"; the technology of newsgathering and production; visions of the future and the realities of today.