A quantitative content analysis of UK newsprint coverage of proposed legislation to prohibit smoking in private vehicles carrying children

This project was funded by Cancer Research UK (MC_U130085862) and the Scottish School of Public Health Research. Cancer Research UK and the Scottish School of Public Health Research were not involved in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, writing of the manuscript or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Shona Hilton, Karen Wood and Chris Patterson were funded by the UK Medical Research Council as part of the Understandings and Uses of Public Health Research programme (MC_UU_12017/6) at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Thanks to Josh Bain and Alan Pollock for coding assistance.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The Mainstream Press: Then and Now Has the Prominence of Sensational News Changed in 100 Years?

The present research explores the levels of sensational news reporting in three distinct periods of journalism history by examining the largest mainstream newspaper in America, The New York Times, during the yellow journalism, jazz journalism and modern eras. The front pages of a representative sample of the newspaper were analyzed to determine the extent to which prominence of sensational news topics in the modern press differs from that of the yellow and jazz eras. The style of sensational reporting was examined to determine if the treatment of news has changed. The results of a content analysis indicate that readers are exposed to less sensational news today in the Times than in the same newspaper of the yellow and jazz eras

Gordon Gammack: Columns From Three Wars

Review of: Gordon Gammack: Columns from Three Wars. Gammack, Gordon

Bildungswesen im Spannungsfeld von Demokratisierung und Privatisierung. Das Beispiel England

This paper presents a view of the reality of education in English schools in the maintained sector since the passing of the Education Reform Act 1988 and legislation subsequent to it. It does so by using a framework of ideology, policy and practice. The last of these is of particular significance because of the changed professional roles of heads and classroom teachers and the consequences for the education of the schoolchildren.(DIPF/Abstract übernommen

Ding: the Life of Jay Norwood Darling

Review of: Ding: The Life of Jay Norwood Darling. Lendt, David L

Book review: Culture And Politics: Issues In Australian Journalism On Indonesia, 1975-1993

Kingsbury Damien (1997) Culture And Politics: Issues In Australian Journalism On Indonesia, 1975-93 Australia-Asia Papers No. 80. Centre for the Study of Australia Asia Relations.Griffith University, Brisbane, Qld. September. ISBN 0 86857 782 O Review Essay by Martin Hirst Culture and Politics is a timely reminder of the delicate nature of the Australian news media\u27s relationship with the Indonesian regime and that so-called cultural sensitivities\u27 are really no more than political expediency (inter alia p.149). Indonesian journalists, as well as those visiting from Australia, are subject to harsh criticism when it suits the Jakarta government. Even worse, local journalists are banned, or have their publications closed down, if they transgress the tough written and unwritten rules of behaviour. As Kingsbury notes, for their sins (real and imagined) several Australian journalists have been expelled from Indonesia over the past 15 years. We\u27re also reminded that in 1975 six Australian reporters were murdered by Indonesian soldiers when they tried to cover the invasion of East Timor