Understanding Global News: A Critical Introduction
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (1998), 239 pp.
ISBN 0-7619-5709-X
"Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the media provide a mere window on the world. Challenging the often unquestioned notions of media objectivity, the author turns the classic questions: Who? What? When? and Why? onto the news media. By employing a range of theoretical perspectives and a large variety of examples, the author demonstrates the way in which our perceptions of the world are constructed by the news media." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction
2 What is News, and what is ‘Nothing New’?
The Philosophy of the Notable and the Inconspicuous
3 Which are the World's most Influential Media?
The Economics of Rich and Poor Media Markets
4 Who are Journalists and how do they Work?
The Sociology of Professionals and Laymen
5 Who gets to Speak in the World News?
The Politics of Loud and Whispering Voices
6 When does Something Become World News?
The History of Ruptures and Continuities
7 Where does World News come from?
The Geography of Centres and Peripheries
8 How are Messages Formulated?
The Linguistics of Lines and between the Lines
9 How do Images come about?
The Semiology of what is Seen and Overseen
10 What Effects do the Media have?
The Psychology of Compassion and Misunderstanding
11 Conclusion: Us, we and them
2 What is News, and what is ‘Nothing New’?
The Philosophy of the Notable and the Inconspicuous
3 Which are the World's most Influential Media?
The Economics of Rich and Poor Media Markets
4 Who are Journalists and how do they Work?
The Sociology of Professionals and Laymen
5 Who gets to Speak in the World News?
The Politics of Loud and Whispering Voices
6 When does Something Become World News?
The History of Ruptures and Continuities
7 Where does World News come from?
The Geography of Centres and Peripheries
8 How are Messages Formulated?
The Linguistics of Lines and between the Lines
9 How do Images come about?
The Semiology of what is Seen and Overseen
10 What Effects do the Media have?
The Psychology of Compassion and Misunderstanding
11 Conclusion: Us, we and them
