CONTENTS: Contributors ix Introduction: Hidden in plain sight - journalism's critical issues 1 Stuart Allan PART 1 Journalism's histories 1. Intimately intertwined in the most public way: celebrity and journalism 19 P. David Marshall 2. Race, ideology and journalism: black power and television news 30 Jane Rhodes 3. The 'gender matters' debate in journalism: lessons from the front 42 Linda Steiner 4. Journalism ethics: towards an Orwellian critique? 54 Richard Keeble 5. News on the Web: the emerging forms and practices of online journalism 67 Stuart Allan PART II Journalism and democracy 6. Is there a democratic deficit in US and UK journalism? 85 Robert A. Hackett 7. Active citizen or couch potato? Journalism and public opinion 98 Justin Lewis and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen 8. In defence of 'thick' journalism; or how television journalism can be good for us 109 Simon Cot tie 9. Fourth estate or fan club? Sports journalism engages the popular 125 David Rowe 10. McJournalism: the local press and the McDonaldization thesis 137 Bob Franklin 11. The emerging chaos of global news culture 151 Brian McNair PART III Journalism's realities 12. Journalism through the camera's eye 167 Barbie Zelizer 13. Mighty dread: journalism and moral panics 177 Chas Critcher 14. Communication or spin? Source-media relations in science journalism 188 Alison Anderson, Alan Petersen and Matthew David 15. Risk reporting: why can't they ever get it right? 199 Susanna Hornig Priest 16. News talk: interaction in the broadcast news interview 210 Ian Hutchby 17. 'A fresh peach is easier to bruise': children and traumatic news 224 Cynthia Carter and Maire Messenger Davies PART IV Journalism and the politics of othering 18. Talking war: how journalism responded to the events of 9/11 239 Martin Montgomery 19. Banal journalism: the centrality of the 'us-them' binary in news discourse 261 Prasun Sonwalkar 20. Racialized 'othering': the representation of asylum seekers in the news media 274 Olga Guedes Bailey and Ramaswami Harindranath 21. Women in the boyzone: gender, news and herstory 287 Karen Ross 22. Gendered news practices: examining experiences of women journalists in different national contexts 299 Minelle Mahtani PART V Journalism and the public interest 23. Subterfuge as public service: investigative journalism as idealized journalism 313 Michael Bromley 24. Opportunity or threat? The BBC, investigative journalism and the Hutton Report 328 Steven Barnett 25. Journalism, media conglomerates and the Federal Communications Commission 342 Oliver Boyd-Barrett 26. News in the global public space 357 Ingrid Volkmer 27. Journalism and the war in Iraq 370 Howard Tumber Index 381