Journalism, Politics and Power

Week 9: Tensions between media and politicians yet as we’ve seen in parallel we have a relationship

that is ‘too cosy’. End of spin the new spin. Joy Johnson

Recommended Reading• Flat Earth News: Nick Davies• The Control Freaks, Nick Jones • End of the Party, Andrew Rawnsley• The Phone Hacking Scandal, Journalism on Trial, eds Keeble and Mair,

Ch 9, How did a British Prime Minister come to depend on an Ex-Editor of the News of the World? Nicholas Jones

• End of the Party, Andrew Rawnsley• Look What the Media has done to our Politics, John Lloyd• any of the diaries and memoirs, Blair, Campbell, Price • In the Foothills, Chris Mullen • The Phone Hacking Scandal, Journalism on Trial, eds Keeble and Mair,

Ch 9, How did a British Prime Minister come to depend on an Ex-Editor of the News of the World? Nicholas Jones