Creation of Political News

James Stanyer

• Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction: The News from Blackpool, Bournemouth and Brighton; Creating the Good' Conference; Negotiating Coverage; The Broadcasters by the Seaside; Spinning on the Conference Circuit; Packaging the Leader's Speech; Off Message: the Limits of Agenda Management; Manufacturing Debate; The Formation of Conference News Agendas; Appendix: Research Methods; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"Detailed case studies provide a welcome documentation of ground-level practice and bring out the complexities of current media-political relations in a way that more generalised polemical pieces often fail to do." -- Parliamentary Affairs."An excellent introduction to journalism and political spin in contemporary British politics." -- Media, Culture & Society."Well researched and highly readable, it will be of great interest to media and political communicaton specialists." -- Party Politics."The focus is on the management of television coverage of annual party conferences, until now a theme not covered in British academic media research." -- The Political Quarterly."Stanyer's book provides fascinating insights into the current organization, conduct and mediation of the modern party political conference in the UK." -- European Journal of Communication.