The Ravenous Half-Shut Eye Manufacturing Bad News from Nowhere?

Abstract

Everywhere broadcasting institutions are in question, and nowhere is their vulnerability more apparent than in television journalism, as the uproar over the ABC's National testifies. Studies of TV news have proliferated. Epstein, and Altheide on organisational imperatives; Gans on social class determinism; Tuchman's interpretative approach; McLuhan's ‘Happy Talk’; the polemics of the Glasgow Media Group; Windschuttle et al on news values; Nixon's ‘the evening news is a series of mini-dramas’ …