Journalism in an age of terror: covering and uncovering the secret state
Material type: TextPublication details: London IB Tauris 2017Description: x, 252 pISBN: 9781784537906; 178453790XSubject(s): Official secrets | Government and the press | Intelligence service | JournalismDDC classification: 070.44932712 Summary: "The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly empowered secret services. This book is the first to analyze, in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA revelations, relations between two key institutions in the modern state: the intelligence services and the news media. It provides the answers to crucial questions including: how can power be held to account if one of the greatest state powers is secret? How far have the Snowden/NSA revelations damaged the activities of the secret services? And have governments lost all trust from journalists and the public?"--P. [4] of cover.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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070.44932 ROU The Routledge companion to political journalism | 070.449320973 FOR/N News grazers : media, politics, and trust in an information age | 070.449320973 FRA/P Presidents and the media : the communicator in chief | 070.44932712 LLO/J Journalism in an age of terror: covering and uncovering the secret state | 070.4493337092 SHU/R Reporting live from the end of the world | 070.4493637 MED.1 Media and the environment | 070.4493637 MED.2 Media and the environment |
"Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford."
"The threat of terrorism and the increasing power of terrorist groups has prompted a rapid growth of the security services and changes in legislation, permitting the collection of communications data. This provides journalism with acute dilemmas. The media claims responsibility for holding power to account, yet cannot know more than superficial details about the newly empowered secret services. This book is the first to analyze, in the aftermath of the Snowden/NSA revelations, relations between two key institutions in the modern state: the intelligence services and the news media. It provides the answers to crucial questions including: how can power be held to account if one of the greatest state powers is secret? How far have the Snowden/NSA revelations damaged the activities of the secret services? And have governments lost all trust from journalists and the public?"--P. [4] of cover.
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