The Known World of Broadcast News: International News and the Electronic Media

by Roger Wallis and Stanley J. Baran

Book Overview

Radio and television news are expanding everywhere, often at the expense of print media. Developments in global communications, in theory at least, have made the world smaller. An event anywhere can theoretically be reported anywhere else on radio within minutes; on television within hours. But theory and practice are often far apart. Broadcast News has become a global business, almost like the music industry, with its own 'Top 10' and an inevitable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415036046
• ISBN13: 9780415036047
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

You must understand the media inorder to live in the media

It goes into how the business uses the media for its own desires or the desires of its patrons. I even heard Dr. Baran himself lecutre about this too. His lecutres and his books ask you hard questions about how the business serve the democratic world in which we live in. The book doesn't favor any side, it telling you what to think about. The book is like a key that is opening the world to our media and how we chose to use it. This book is another item to have in the quest of understanding media.