Live, Direct and Biased? Making Television News in the Satellite Age

by Brent MacGregor

A study of the changing face of television news, this book examines both the transmitted screen product and the newsgathering process. It is an analysis of how television reporting has changed in the age of rolling news and an examination of how TV news can affect the course of current affairs worldwide. From the fall of the Berlin wall, through the Gulf War, to the O J Simpson chase and trial, TV news is now--more than ever before--enmeshed in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340662255
• ISBN13: 9780340662250
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"