Part 1 Press History 1. Whig press history as political mythology 2. The struggle for a free press 3. The ugly face of reform 4. The industrialization of the press 5. The era of the press barons 6. The press under public regulation 7. The press in the age of conglomerates Part 2 Broadcasting History 8. Reith and the denial of politics 9. Broadcasting and the blitz 10. Social revolution? 11. The fall of the BBC 12. Class, taste and profit 13. How the audience is made 14. Video, cable and the satellite 15. To be or not to be in the BBC: broadcasting in the 1980s and 1990s Part 3 Theories of the media 16. Global futures, the information society, and broadcasting 17. The sociology of the mass media 18. The liberal theory of press freedom 19. Broadcasting and the theory of public service Part 4 Politics of the media 20. Contradictions in media policy 21. Palette of policies 21. Media reform