 | Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with it by J Lewis
Buy new: £18.53 / Used from: £7.50 Informed, incisive and extremely readable - A JOMEC must. Helpful in understanding exactly how public opinion is managed and hegemony is maintained
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 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £5.00 Immense...very firmly at the core of the JOMEC cannon.
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 | Hegemony or Survival : America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £2.16 Don't approach issues surrounding international relations without it. A nice bit of Chomsky. Typically revealing and critical if spoilt at times but an unncessarily ironic and superior tone.
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 | My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism by Andrew Marr
Buy new: £6.72 / Used from: £0.01 Fascinating review of British journalism from the inside. Crucial alternative to more left-wing, structuralist accounts. You wont find this on reading lists but it's an important read in my view.
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 | The Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World by Mark Curtis
Buy new: £6.73 / Used from: £3.24 Informed review of recent British foreign policy and the role of the media. Helpful in relating Chomskian analysis to the details of British foreign policy and media coverage.
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 | The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth-maker from the Crimea to the Gulf War II by Phillip Knightley
Buy used from: £80.00 Lengthy but important starting-point for dicussion of war reporting
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 | Packaging Politics: Political Communications in Britian's Media Democracy by Franklin Bob
Buy used from: £42.07 One of the best reviews of contemporary political communication and advertising
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 | Diana's Mourning: A People's History by James Thomas
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £6.25 A revealing study of a monumental media event
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 | Power without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain by James Curran
Buy used from: £4.50 Indispensable. Perhaps the best review of the British media. Crops up on just about every course.
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 | Blair's Wars by John Kampfner
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Cracking insight into the road to war and the mechanics of policy-making
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