Power Without Responsibility Book

	About the authors
	Acknowledgements
	Preface to the sixth edition
Pt. I	Press history	1
1	Whig press history as political mythology	3
2	The struggle for a free press	6
3	The ugly face of reform	18
4	The industrialization of the press	24
5	The era of the press barons	38
6	The press under public regulation	55
7	The press in the age of globalization	67
Pt. II	Broadcasting history	107
8	Reith and the denial of politics	109
9	Broadcasting and the blitz	126
10	Social revolution?	149
11	The fall of the BBC	159
12	Class, taste, and profit	171
13	How the audience is made	179
14	Video, cable, and satellite	197
15	Broadcasting roller-coaster	207
Pt. III	Rise of new media	235
16	Scientists, capitalists, and cyberchartists	237
17	Sociology of the internet	259
18	New media in Britain	275
Pt. IV	Theories of the media	295
19	Global futures, the information society, and broadcasting	297
20	The sociology of the mass media	323
21	The liberal theory of press freedom	346
22	Broadcasting and the theory of public service	363
Pt. V	Politics of the media	377
23	Contradictions in media policy	379
24	Central debates in media politics	392
	Bibliography	415
	Index	451