Add to ORKGThe News International scandal has rightly caused public outrage and led to a sea-change in relations between UK politicians and media moguls. Yet Murdoch’s empire has been only part of a much wider structure of unaccountable power which has exercised a dominant influence over British politics and policy making in the past two decades or more. David Beetham argues that this ‘unelected oligarchy’ extends to the corporate sector as a whole, including the major financial and banking institutions
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Financial scandals and controversies have recently attracted much attention in the British press. Th...
With all the excitement about Julian Assange it’s easy to forget that another hugely divisive figure...
Imagine a top tabloid newspaper supported a leading ‘non-Westminster’ politician through his difficu...
Much of the recent public outcry over the phone hacking scandal has been over the relative unaccount...
Transnational media corporations now wield enormous power and influence. Never has this been display...
This article analyses the split of the former News Corporation into two new companies within a conte...
The reciprocal closeness in the relationship between journalism and power is a prominent feature of ...
Despite the potential for conflict between news media’s idealised socio-political role and its pract...
Creating spectacle in whatever form sells copy, but it also greatly increases visibility. Politician...
In 2009 David Cameron, the Leader of the British Conservative Party, then in opposition, announced t...
The Global Financial Crisis presented the media with numerous opportunities to tell dramatic busines...
In an era in which public trust of traditional media is slowly rising from the low point of the phon...
News media depictions of the financial crisis promoted the idea that it was caused by greed and a la...
The revolutionary shift that we are witnessing at the beginning of the 21st Century from democracy t...
The Media Select Committee report on its phone-hacking investigation is tougher than I expected and ...
Financial scandals and controversies have recently attracted much attention in the British press. Th...
With all the excitement about Julian Assange it’s easy to forget that another hugely divisive figure...
Imagine a top tabloid newspaper supported a leading ‘non-Westminster’ politician through his difficu...