Books reviewed
THE BBC: PUBLIC INSTITUTION AND PRIVATE WORLD. By Tom Burns. London: Macmillan, 1977; pp. xviii+313. $19.50.
MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY. Edited by James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, and Janet Woollacott. London: Edward Arnold in association with The Open University Press, 1977; pp. 478. £9.95.
READING TELEVISION. By John Fiske and John Hartley. London: Methuen, 1978; pp. 223. £2.50.
FACING THE NATION: TELEVISION AND POLITICS 1936–76. By Grace Wyndham Goldie. London: The Bodley Head, 1977; pp. 368. $17.50.
PUTTING ‘REALITY’ TOGETHER: BBC NEWS. By Philip Schlesinger. London: Constable, 1978; pp. 303. £8.50.
THE PRODUCTION OF POLITICAL TELEVISION. By Michael Tracey. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978; pp. xiii+283. $10.00.
THE POLITICS OF THE MEDIA. By John Whale. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1977; pp. 176. $10.25.