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INDEX

                News on Sunday 119–20         political parties, and advertising 7;
                newspapers, bias in 13; columns  commitments of 5–6; goals of 5;
                  80–1; commercial pressures on  and mass media communication
                  52, 55; commercialisation of  6–7; and public relations 7–8
                  78–9; editorials in 77–8; feature  political reality, definition of 74–5
                  articles in 81–2; importance of  politicians, advertising of 42–3;
                  letters pages 14; interventionist  and agenda-setting 52; attitude
                  aspects of 13; law and order  toward free media 131–3; as
                  debates in 77; numbers/types of  creditable columnists 80–1;
                  48; partisanship/advocacy of 51;  editorial endorsements of 78;
                  political allegiance of 56–61,   embarassment of 69; interviews
                  69, 229(4/4n); political      with 86–9; leadership issues 75;
                  interventions by 76–7,        and manipulation of
                  229(5/1n); and press freedom  media/journalists 71, 161; media
                  48–9; public voice of 13, 77–9,  dependence on 137; relationship
                  227(1/3n); quality/tabloid    with journalists 70–1; use of
                  approaches 76, see also       advertising 101–7, 110–15
                  journalism                  politics, campaign costs 40–2;
                Nimmo, D. 134; and Combs, J. 51,  commercialisation of 42–3;
                  79, 80, 82, 87; and Felsberg, A.  ecological model 54; and media
                  100                           production 66–9; and policy on
                Nixon, R. 108, 138, 194         HIV/AIDS 53; and the post-
                Northern Ireland 76–7           modern 43–5
                                              Ponting, C. 157
                Observer 144                  post-modern 43–5
                                              Poulantzas, N. 165, 230(8/1n)
                Paletz, D. and Schmid, A. 182  Prescott, J. 132, 138, 154
                Panama 211–12                 press see newspapers
                Parenti, M. 195, 231(9/1n)    pressure groups, characteristics of
                Parliamentary Channel (BBC      9; confrontational aspects 175;
                  Parliament) 83–4              emergence of 175;
                Paxman, J. 87, 88, 89, 139      environmental movement
                Perot, Ross 109                 178–81; fuel/other protests
                Philo, G. 53, 66, 222           180–1; gay liberation 180; and
                political communication, audience  nuclear issues 175–8; peace
                  for 11; definitions of 3–4; and  movement 176–8; politics of
                  democratic process 38–40;     9–10
                  directed 38; effects of 11, 30–46;  Private Eye 82
                  elements of 5–15; as good/bad  propaganda 76, 120; and Cold
                  37–8; importance of 45;       War image 192, 193, 231(9/2n);
                  international stage 14–15;    environmental 179–80; in Gulf
                  interpersonal 4, 23; and the  War 216–18
                  media 12–14; as mediated 29;  pseudo-events 71, 140–1; and
                  micro-/macro-level 29; and    election campaigns 143, 144,
                  political organisations 5–10; rise  230(7/5n); elements of 43–4; as
                  of 29; and status of          hyperreality 44; increasing
                  communicator 38, see also     prevalence of 44; interviews with
                  communication process;        politicians 44; journalistic
                  internal communication;       scepticism concerning 144–5;
                  international communication   and the media 27–8, 44, 45; and


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