Public Relations Democracy: Politics, Public Relations and the Mass Media in BritainThis book looks at the rapid expansion of professional public relations and discusses its effects on the mass media and political process. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Frameworks and debates | 4 |
A few notes on theory and methods | 14 |
Book outline | 17 |
The expansion of public relations and its impact on news production | 19 |
The interaction of journalists sources and public relations practitioners | 25 |
Resources and the shift to source supply | 32 |
Conclusion | 40 |
Radical pluralist optimism and nonofficial source strategies | 120 |
Conclusion | 123 |
Trade union public relationsresistance within news production | 125 |
The state of union communications in the late 1990s | 126 |
Overcoming communications disadvantages | 131 |
Evaluating the effectiveness of new union communications | 142 |
Conclusion | 148 |
The Union of Communication Workers versus Post Office privatisation in 1994 | 150 |
Corporate public relations and corporate source influence on the national media | 45 |
Public relations and corporate control of news production the radical thesis | 46 |
Radical miscalculations and the failure of business sources | 50 |
Alternative business communication objectives | 55 |
City and financial public relations and business news | 60 |
Financial news and the transition from public interest to corporate need | 61 |
Closed discourse networks and the corporate capture of financial news | 70 |
The ideological and material consequences | 77 |
Conclusion | 82 |
The Granada takeover of Forte | 84 |
Corporate conflict and communications conflictthe spinning of elites | 85 |
From spinning corporate elites to corporate elite capture of the media | 97 |
Conclusion | 104 |
Outsider and resourcepoor groups trade unions and mediasource relations | 109 |
Union communications and the Glasgow University Media Group thesis | 110 |
Unions as outsiderresourcepoor sources | 116 |
Union communications or force of circumstances? | 151 |
Overcoming the economic and media deficits | 157 |
Overcoming the limits of institutional authority with thirdparty endorsement | 160 |
Setting news agendas dividing oppositions and the creation of negative news | 165 |
Postscript | 168 |
Conclusion | 169 |
Conclusion | 171 |
Public relations and patterns of interest groupsource access in Britain | 173 |
Public relations policymaking and power relations | 178 |
Appendices | 183 |
List of interviewees | 185 |
Table printouts for trade union survey | 188 |
Bibliography | 195 |
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