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• McNae's Essential Law for Journalists

  
  
   

• Power without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain

  James Curran, Jean Seaton

  
  
   

• OCR Media Studies for AS (A Level Media Studies)

  Julian McDougall

  
  
   

• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

  Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

  
  
   

• Media 08: The Essential Guide to the Changing Media Landscape, with 14,000 Contacts

  Janine Gibson

  
  
   

• Directing the Documentary

  Michael Rabiger

  
  
   

• Strange Places, Questionable People

  John Simpson

  
  John Simpson has had an extraordinary professional life: he has been to 101 countries, interviewed 120 rulers of various persuasions, and witnessed 29 wars and uprisings. He had an ill-fated spell reading the Nine O'Clock News, and was also the BBC political correspondent (which he loathed). He emerges fairly unscathed; he can appear arrogant and over-bearing, but he maintains a healthy degree of self-deprecation, and to survive the macho world in which he works one would need the skin of a rhinoceros.

  He has become a household name (though he still gets mistaken for presenter John Humphrys), and his stories, some oft-repeated, are fascinating, the tone as dry as his reportage. The disquieting effect they have is to show the fragile arbitrariness of power and the people who crave it, and it is this indigestible feeling of vulnerability that one is left with when the gung-ho spirit has faded.

  But what of the man? Curiously he chose to live with his father when his parents' marriage split up. He loves books, as he constantly reminds us, and would love to be known for his writing. He is sensitive about his appearance, referring more than once to his girth, and he is now married for the second time. Beyond this, he reveals little extraneous detail. This is a pity, but should be no surprise. The story is the thing, after all, and his is a journalistic honesty, which makes for compelling, if two-dimensional, reading. --David Vincent

  
   

• AQA AS Media: Student Book (Aqa Media Studies for As)

  Julia Burton, Elspeth Stevenson

  
  
   

• And Now on Radio 4: A Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station

  Simon Elmes

  
  
   

• Media Semiotics

  Jonathan Bignell

  
  
   

• New Media: A Critical Introduction

  Martin Lister, Jon Dovey, Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly

  
  
   

• Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction

  
  
   

• The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide: A Down and Dirty DV Production

  Artis

  
  
   

• An Introduction to Television Studies (Routledge Key Guides) (Routledge Key Guides)

  Jonathan Bignell

  
  
   

• Mass Communication Research Methods

  Anders Hansen, Simon Cottle, Ralph Negrine, Chris Newbold

  
  
   

• Understanding Media (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics)

  Marshall McLuhan

  
  
   

• Audio Post Production for Television and Film: An introduction to technology and techniques: An Introduction to Technology and Techniques

  Hilary Wyatt, Tim Amyes

  
  
   

• Grammar of the Edit (Media Manuals)

  Roy Thompson

  
  
   

• The Pirate's Dilemma: How Hackers, Punk Capitalists, Graffiti Millionaires and Other Youth Movements are Remixing Our Culture and Changing Our World: How ... Remixing Our Culture and Changing Our World

  Matt Mason

  
  
   

• Global Village Idiot

  John O'Farrell

  
  The title of John O'Farrell's latest book, Global Village Idiot, refers not to the author, who proves far from an idiot, but to President George W Bush, whose trip to Europe in June 2001 closes this compendium of absurdly funny, journalistic pummellings. Sadly, subsequent events may now result in only edgy laughter at the witticism. In an age of ubiquitous but low-cal humour, John O'Farrell is that old-fashioned diamond, a gags man unable to write a dull line. In this, he plies a trade of satire and whimsy that combines the best of British working-men's clubs with the quick-fire, dime-a-joke New York patter that relies on fresh rather than canned humour.

  Collecting 1000-word comment pieces, mainly from The Guardian and The Independent, Global Village Idiot reveals an irreverently relevant look at British and world news at the turn of the century. O'Farrell, the author of Things Can Only Get Better, a memoir of 18 grim years as a Labour Party activist ruined by the 1997 General Election triumph, and the comic novel, The Best a Man Can Get, distinguishes his soapbox pennyworths by an affirming sense of belief, and moral consequence. He may poke fun at Bush, New Labour, boarding-school parents, hopping across the wasteland of television "choice", Euro-sceptics, SAS novelists and paternity leave; he even piles further comic indignities onto Neil Hamilton and Mohammed al Fayed, despite their own high standards on that score. Yet behind the wisecracks, and consistently high chortle factor, lies more serious intent. To laugh is to be alive to the disgraces, anomalies, hypocrisies, skulduggery and double standards of modern life that impel socio-political satirists such as O'Farrell to write with such consistent pinging accuracy. Perhaps the biggest compliment is to say that if today's news is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper, then somehow O'Farrell makes delightful macramé from it. And who knows, an article a day may help keep the spin-doctors at bay. --David Vincent