Social policy, the media and misrepresentation /

Social Policy, the Media and Misrepresentation examines aspects of news media reporting of social policy and how such coverage can influence processes of policy-making and implementation. It offers an appraisal of the complex inter-relationships between news media, news sources, the content of media...

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Other Authors: Franklin, Bob, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • Soft-soaping the public? : the government and media promotion of social policy / Bob Franklin
  • Media coverage of social policy : a journalist's perspective / David Brindle
  • Charitable images : the construction of voluntary sector news / David Deacon
  • Dying of ignorance? : journalists, news sources and the media reporting of HIV/AIDS / Kevin Williams
  • Poor relations : state social work and the press in the UK / Meryl Aldridge
  • Home truths : media representations of homelessness / Steve Platt
  • The picture of health? : media coverage of the health service / Vikki Entwistle and Trevor Sheldon
  • Media and mental health / Greg Philo and Jenny Secker
  • Thinking the unthinkable : welfare reform and the media / Peter Golding
  • Are you paying attention? : education and the media / Tony Jeffs
  • Exorcising demons : media, politics and criminal justice / John Muncie
  • Bulger, 'back to basics' and the rediscovery of community / Bill Jordan
  • The ultimate neighbour from hell? : stranger danger and the media framing of paedophiles / Jenny Kitzinger
  • Out of the closet : new images of disability in the civil rights campaign / Ann Pointon
  • Social threat or social problem? : media representations of lone mothers and policy implications / Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards and Miri Song
  • They make us out to be monsters : imagaes of children and young people in care / Andy West.