附註:Previous edition: 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-450) and index.
Cover -- POWER WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY -- POWER WITHOUT RESPONSIBILITY -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the sixth edition -- Part I -- Press history -- 1 -- Whig press history as political mythology -- 2 -- The struggle for a free press -- 3 -- The ugly face of reform -- 4 -- The industrialization of the press -- 5 -- The era of the press barons -- 6 -- The press under public regulation -- 7 -- The press in the age of globalization -- Part II -- Broadcasting history -- 8 -- Reith and the denial of politics -- 9 -- Broadcasting and the blitz -- 10 -- Social revolution? -- 11 -- The fall of the BBC -- 12 -- Class, taste, and profit -- 13 -- How the audience is made -- 14 -- Video, cable, and satellite -- 15 -- Broadcasting roller-coaster -- Part III -- Rise of new media -- 16 -- Scientists, capitalists, and cyberchartists -- 17 -- Sociology of the internet -- 18 -- New media in Britain -- Part IV -- Theories of the media -- 19 -- Global futures, the information society, and broadcasting -- 20 -- The sociology of the mass media -- 21 -- The liberal theory of press freedom -- 22 -- Broadcasting and the theory of public service -- Part V -- Politics of the media -- 23 -- Contradictions in media policy -- 24 -- Central debates in media politics -- Bibliography -- Public reports and papers -- The press -- Broadcasting -- Economic approaches to the media -- Politics of British mass media -- New media -- Index.
