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Why Their News is Bad News (1983 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Argues that the media favours the white, male, middle-class establishment and challenges the broadcasters’ claim to impartiality in their news and current affairs coverage. Includes interviews with Anthony...

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News Pack, The (1995 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., 1996 sale: £59.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A video-based teaching pack arranged to cover the language of news; newspapers and readers; the newspaper industry; representation; inside issues. The video includes editions of BBC NINE O’CLOCK NEWS and...

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News and the Democratic Agenda (1997 Video)

aka: News and a Democratic Agenda?

Producer

Eleanor Morris

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the role of television news in a liberal democracy, as the pace of technological and institutional changes appears to be accelerating in this, the late 20th century. Examines the pressures on...

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Abc News: We Interrupt This Program (2001)

aka: We Interrupt This Program

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 55 minutes), $19.98 (+p&p)

Three live broadcasts of breaking news events on ABC News: the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.; the hijacking of TWA Flight 847; and the San Francisco earthquake.

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Broadcast News (1992 Multimedia)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

CD-ROM

A database of full-text, fully-indexed transcripts from news and current affairs programmes broadcast on CNN, National Public Radio, ABC News and PBS television and radio networks, covering US and...

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Dustbins in the Sky (1992 Video)

Director

Mike Lockey

Producer

Bob Thorpe

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Traces the development of news gathering from the 1890s through to the coming of satellites, from the days of the film to the days of video, from the time when news was always three days old to the time when...

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TV News: Editing the Story (2001)

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (37 min), £49.00 inclusive

One of a series of six programmes covering different areas of video production. Each programme is delivered in sections punctuated with key point summaries. The techniques of writing and editing news are...

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Feeding the Beast (2003)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (NTSC, 30 minutes), $69.95

Following the resignation of two of the New York Times’ top editors in June 2003 , the programme raises issues about newsgathering and decision-making in journalism by looking at the ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT...

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Vietnam War, The: The Seeds of Conflict (1995 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

CBS News footage of the Vietnam War which includes combat footage inside the doomed French garrison at Dien Bien Phu, early American missions, and the lead-up to the first battle at La Drang Valley where the...

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Here was the News 1960: Part 1 (2009)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.50

In 1959, the launch of Anglia Television brought regional news to television sets for the first time. This DVD presents a selection of local news items, from flooding to fashions. The headlines of 1959 and...

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