The BBC
Public Institution and Private World
Published on 30. April 2016
XVIII, 313 pages
978-1-349-63672-3 (ISBN)
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07/1977
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Past and Present
- The Creation of a Social-industrial Complex
- The Westminster Connection
- Control and Consensus
- The Governors and the Public Interest
- 2 From Public Service to Professionalism
- The Power of Broadcasting
- The Idea of Public Service in Broadcasting
- The Reithian Ethos
- From Monopoly to Competition
- Industrial Relations
- 3 Settings
- Physical Setting
- Social Settings
- Grading
- Social Distinctions
- Commitment and Career
- The Appointments System and Boardmanship
- 4 A Private World
- Professionalism as a Moral Order
- Against the Image of Public Service
- Cryptomicrocosmos
- BBC Policy and Internal Politics
- 5 Press Freedom and Broadcasting Liberties
- The National Interest and the Public Good
- Into Politics
- The Pride and Terror of Broadcasting
- Divisions and Dimensions
- The Fourth Estate
- From News Bulletins to 'Yesterday's Men'
- 6 The Servant of two Masters
- The Politics of Accommodation
- Eyes, ravenous and halfshut
- Mirrors, ugly and in corners
- the Manufacture of Bad News from Nowhere, etc. etc.
- Technical Constraints
- Organisational Controls
- The Rhetoric and the Grammar of Broadcast Journalism
- The Corporate Idea
- The Adversary Stance
- Beating the Clock
- 'Viewability'
- 7 Managing The Bbc
- The Industrialisation of the BBC
- A Segmented Organisation
- Financial Pressures
- The 'McKinsey Reorganisation'
- The Planning Cycle
- Under New Management
- 8 Management Structure and Organisational Process
- The New Managerialism
- The Expropriation of Commitment
- The Common Interests of Common Resources
- The Conditions of Engagement as a Human Resource
- Social Interaction, Skilled and Unskilled
- Organisational Processes within Management
- The BBC as Unfinished Business
- Notes
- Index
