The angry buzz

the angry buzz This Week and Current Affairs Television Patricia Holland Published in 2006 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fi�h Avenue, New York, NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St Martin’s Press, 175 Fi�h Avenue, New York, NY 10010 Copyright © 2006 Patricia Holland The right of Patricia Holland to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmi�ed, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior wri�en permission of the publisher. ISBN: 1 84511 051 X EAN:978 1 84511 051 2 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress catalog card: available Typeset in Palatino Linotype by A. & D. Worthington, Newmarket Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin contents Preface v Acknowledgements ix Author’s Note xi Introduction: Democracy and Public Service Television xiii 1. More Fun than Panorama: Current Affairs in a Frivolous Medium 1 2. The Pilkingtons Take Over 35 3. Into the ‘Golden Age’? 60 4. Moments of Excess 87 5. This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 1: Five Long Years 111 6. This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 2: More Than We Wanted to Know 139 7. Passion or Sensation: TVEye 168 8. More Drums: Death and the Rock 190 Postscript: Next Week: Citizens Still? 215 References 221 Index 227 ‘We need the angry buzz of current affairs’ Professor Sylvia Harvey ... - tailieumienphi.vn