Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Rolston, Bill.
2. Miller, David, 1964-

Description

1. xvii, 458 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Media Wars analyses the media coverage of the conflict in Ulster over the past twenty-seven years. The book presents revelations about the manufacture of propaganda by the British Army, and analyses censorship by the British and Irish governments.

Alternative title

1. Northern Ireland media reader.

Subject

1. British Broadcasting Corporation
2. 1968-1998
3. Violence in mass media
4. Mass media and public opinion
5. Journalism > Political aspects > Northern Ireland
6. Journalism > Political aspects > Great Britain
7. Journalism > Political aspects
8. Mass media
9. Berichterstattung
10. Aufsatzsammlung
11. Massamedia
12. Geweld
13. Noord-Ierland
14. Publieke opinie
15. Geschichte 1959-1996
16. Northern Ireland > In mass media
17. Northern Ireland > History > 1968-1998
18. Great Britain
19. Northern Ireland
20. Nordirland

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. 2BE consolidates: the early years of the BBC in Northern Ireland / Rex Cathcart -- Television coverage of Northern Ireland / Anthony Smith -- The BBC and the 1974 Ulster Workers' Council Strike / Robert Fisk -- Broadcasting to a community in conflict: the experience in Northern Ireland / Richard Francis -- Reporting Northern Ireland / Peter Taylor -- The reference upwards system / Liz Curtis -- The 'real lives' controversy / Michael Leapman -- Death on the rock / Roger Bolton -- BBC, Style guide, 1993 -- BBC, Guidelines for factual programmes, 1989 -- The army of PR men of Northern Ireland / Simon Hoggart -- Colin Wallace and the propaganda war / Paul Foot -- Still dark in paranoia gulch / Duncan Campbell -- Republican publicity / Liz Curtis -- The Northern Ireland Information Service and the media: aims, strategy, tactics / David Miller -- Political censorship / Bill Rolston -- The history behind a mistake / David Miller -- The silence in Irish broadcasting / Betty Purcell -- A catalogue of censorship 1959-1993 / Liz Curtis -- Reporting Republican violence / Liz Curtis -- The semantics of political violence / Peter Taylor -- The state and 'terrorism' on British television / Philip Elliott, Graham Murdock and Philip Schlesinger -- Covering the Northern crisis: the U.S. press and Northern Ireland / Jack Holland -- Mothers, whores and villians: images of women in novels of the Northern Ireland conflict / Bill Rolston -- Reporting the peace in Ireland / David Miller and Greg McLaughlin.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.