Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners' strike.

Greg Philo

Introduction; Chapter 1 Making the news; Chapter 2 Practical experience and knowledge; Chapter 3 Occupational groups; Chapter 4 Special interest groups; Chapter 5 Residential groups; Chapter 6 Conclusions: news content and audience belief; Chapter 7 Issues in news content, effects, and 'bias';