| Description |
x, 287 pages ; 24 cm |
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Introduction / Bob Franklin -- Pt. I. Producing social policy news. 1. Soft-soaping the public? The government and media promotion of social policy / Bob Franklin. 2. Media coverage of social policy: a journalist's perspective / David Brindle. 3. Charitable images: the construction of voluntary sector news / David Deacon. 4. Dying of ignorance? Journalists, news sources and the media reporting of HIV/AIDS / Kevin Williams -- Pt. 2. The media reporting of social policy. 5. Poor relations: state social work and the press in the UK / Meryl Aldridge. 6. Home truths: media representations of homelessness / Steve Platt. 7. The picture of health? Media coverage of the health service / Vikki Entwistle and Trevor Sheldon. 8. Media and mental health / Greg Philo and Jenny Secker. 9. Thinking the unthinkable: welfare reform and the media / Peter Golding. 10. Are you paying attention? Education and the media / Tony Jeffs |
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11. Exorcising demons: media, politics and criminal justice / John Muncie -- Pt. 3. The media reporting of social policy: case studies. 12. Bulger, 'back to basics' and the rediscovery of community / Bill Jordan. 13. The ultimate neighbour from hell? Stranger danger and the media framing of paedophiles / Jenny Kitzinger. 14. Out of the closet: new images of disability in the civil rights campaign / Ann Pointon. 15. Social threat or social problem? Media representations of lone mothers and policy implications / Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards and Miri Song. 16. They make us out to be monsters: images of children and young people in care / Andy West |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Government and the press -- Great Britain.
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Journalistic ethics -- Great Britain.
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
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Press and politics -- Great Britain.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Social problems -- Press coverage -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Franklin, Bob, 1949-
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| LC no. |
99024844 |
| ISBN |
0415201063 (hbk.) |
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0415201071 (paperback) |
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