Tabloid Tales: Global Debates Over Media Standards (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)

by Colin Sparks (Editor), Colin Sparks (Editor), John Tulloch (Editor)

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  2000

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  Coverage of the mad cow disease outbreak in the mid 1990s was accused by many commentators of starting a widespread public panic. These essays examine the diminishing coverage of serious news, often described as tabloidisation , and study what is going on and what its implications are.