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THE POLITICAL MEDIA

Further reading
The history and current structure of the British news media
are described in News and Journalism in the UK, fourth
edition (2003). Kevin Williams’ Get Me a Murder a Day!
(1999) covers the history of the British media more
broadly, as does Curran and Seaton’s classic Power Without
Responsibility, 5th edition (1997).
For an elegant defence of the democratic contribution of
popular, or ‘tabloid’ political journalism see John Hartley’s
Popular Reality (1996) and Catharine Lumby’s Gotcha. For
a recent Australian perspective on the dynamics of sleaze
journalism see Rod Tiffen’s Scandal (1999).

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