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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Representing Politics | |
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| Political Bias | |
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| Why does bias matter? | |
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| Defining bias | |
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| Types of bias | |
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| The Bad News studies | |
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| Manufacturing Consent | |
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| Critiques of bias research | |
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| Constructing reality? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Telling Tales: The Reporting of Politics | |
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| Frames versus biases | |
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| Producing news | |
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| Genres and political coverage | |
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| Telling political stories | |
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| We the people | |
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| Explaining political stories | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| It's Just for Fun: Politics and Entertainment | |
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| Political satire: politics as deluded and corrupt | |
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| Politics as conspiracy | |
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| Entertainment as propaganda | |
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| The politics of identity: from soap opera to sport | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Media Effects | |
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| Seeing is believing? | |
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| Under the influence? | |
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| Press and voting behaviour | |
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| Television and voting behaviour | |
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| Influence beyond the ballot box | |
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| Elite effects | |
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| Media consumption in context | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Political Economy of Mass Media | |
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| State Control and State Propaganda | |
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| Systems of control | |
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| Censorship | |
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| Secrecy | |
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| Propaganda | |
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| Regulation | |
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| Comparing media systems | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power | |
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| Media empires | |
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| Ownership and control | |
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| The power of Rupert Murdoch | |
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| Readers and viewers | |
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| Advertisers | |
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| Reconsidering media power | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalism | |
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| The power of the spin doctor? | |
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| The rise of churnalism | |
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| Investigative journalism and the 'dumbing down' of news | |
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| Models of journalism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Dream Worlds: Globalization and the Webs of Power | |
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| Global players | |
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| A history of the future | |
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| Globalization or internationalization? | |
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| Conglomerates, governments and identities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Mass Media and Democracy | |
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| Transforming Political Communication? The Rise of Political Marketing and Celebrity Politics | |
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| Packaging politics | |
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| Packaging techniques | |
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| Arguing about marketing | |
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| The rise of the celebrity politician | |
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| The critique of celebrity politics | |
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| In defence of celebrity politics | |
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| Judging by appearance | |
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| Politics as media performance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| New Media, New Politics? | |
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| Transforming politics? A five-step programme | |
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| E-democracy: practice and promises | |
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| The argument for e-democracy | |
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| The argument against e-democracy | |
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| New media and politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Power and Mass Media | |
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| Discursive power | |
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| Access power | |
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| Resource power | |
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| Theories of media power | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Free Press: Democracy and Mass Media | |
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| Liberal democracy and the free press | |
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| The value of free speech | |
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| The limits to free speech | |
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| Free press/free market? | |
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| Democratic regulation? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |