First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint.
Focusing on the British economy in crisis, and its thematic linkage with the Social Contract during the first four months of 1975, the book deals with three main levels of activity: the story, the language and the visuals. As the book unpacks each level of routine news coverage a picture emerges which has the surface appearance of neutrality and balance but is in fact highly partial and restricted
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It continues to assault that most hallowed belief of news-broadcasters, that the news is an unbiased reflection of reality. What it convincingly shows is that this coverage is indeed selective, not a neutral reflection of events, and that this selectivity was not dictated by the need to provide action packed pictures for the viewers to watch but by journalistic criteria as to what is newsworthy.- Times Higher Education Supplement
Part 1: Reporting the Economic Crisis and the Social Contract: A Case
Study
1. Introduction: The Economic Background
2. Wages and Price Figures
3.
From Diagnosis to Prescription
4. Pointing the Finger: Evaluations and
Judgements
5. Who Gets On?: Conclusion Part 2: Hear it This Way
6. News
Ideology: Neutrality and Naturalism
7. Assembling the News Text
8. News Talk:
Vocabulary and Industrial Action Part 3: See it This Way
9. Measuring the
Visuals
10. Halting the Flow
11. Good Evening
12. Still Life
13. Truth 24
Times a Second 25 Times for Television
14. Appendix A: Just One Week
15.
Appendix B: Identifying Exploratory Themes 16: Appendix C: The Events of
Sunday 11 May Saturday 17 May 1975
Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo, Paul Walton, Brian Winston
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