Summary Of No News Is Bad News

This volume of collected essays provides a wide-ranging survey of the state of radio and television, especially the idea of public service broadcasting, and of news, current affairs and documentary programming in America, Australia, the UK and the rest of western Europe. Among the key issues it addresses are the ‘dumbing down’ of TV news, the infotainment factor in current affairs shows and the disappearance of the documentary. Using contemporary cases and examples – from the row over the scheduling of News at Ten in the UK to the creation of ABC News Online in Australia — the essays link the performance of radio and television at the turn of the millennium with the processes of deregulation, liberalisation and digitalisation which have been evident since the 1980s.Working from a much needed and original comparative approach which encompasses complex and well-established public broadcasting in the USA as well as emerging and vulnerable participatory radio stations in El Salvador, the book sets a variety of experiences of factual radio and television programming within wider political and cultural contexts.

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