Assess the impact of the media on public opinion in British politics?

Required Reading Garnett, M. and P. Lynch (2009) Exploring British Politics, Ch. 4. Heffernan, R., Cowley, P. and C Hay (eds) (2011) Developments in British Politics 9, Palgrave: Basingstoke, Ch.12. Kuhn R. (2007) Politics and the Media in Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave, Chs. 1 &10. Additional Reading Barnett, S. (2002) ‘Will a Crisis in Journalism Provoke a Crisis in Democracy?’ Political Quarterly, 73 (4): 400-408. Couldry, N. and Livingstone, S.M. & T. Markham (2010) Media consumption and public engagement: beyond the presumption of attention. Palgrave, Basingstoke, Chs, 1, 2 & 9. Curran, J. and J. Seaton (2003) Power without responsibility the press, broadcasting, and new media in Britain, Routledge: London, Chs 16 & 24 espec. Freedman, D. (2008) The Politics of Media Policy. Polity: Cambridge. Chs.1 & 2. Gibbons, V. (2010) ‘Public Perceptions of the Media's Reporting of Politics Today’. Parliamentary Affairs, 63(2): 369-376 Leach, R. Coxall, W & L Robins (2006) British Politics, Palgrave: Basingstoke, Ch.9. Lloyd, J.(2004). What the Media are Doing to our Politics. London: Constable. McNair, B. (2000) Journalism and Democracy. London: Routledge, Ch. 1 & 2. McNair, B. (2004) An Introduction to Political Communication. London: Routledge, Chs 1, 2 & 10. Negrine, R. (2008). Transformation of Political Communication, Palgrave: Basingstoke. Ch.6. Oates, S. (2008) An Introduction to Media and Politics. Sage: London, Chs 1-3. Street, J. (2001) Mass Media, Politics and Democracy, Palgrave: Basingstoke, intro Chs. 1 &12. Wring, D. and S.J. Ward. (2010) ‘The Media and the 2010 Campaign: The Television Election?’ Parliamentary Affairs, 63 (3): 802-817. Wring, D., Mortimore, R. and S. Atkinson (eds). (2011). Political Communication in Britain: The Leader's Debates, the Campaign and the Media in the 2010 General Election. Palgrave: Basingstoke. Chs 2-5 & 17. Leveson, Phone Hacking and the Media Zelizer, B. (2012) How to make meaning of hand-wringing after scandal’. Media, Culture & Society 34: 625-630, Gaber, I. (2012) ‘Rupert and the ‘three card trope’ – what you see ain’t necessarily what you get’.Media, Culture & Society, 34: 637-646. Petley, J. (2012) ‘The Leveson Inquiry: Journalism ethics and press freedom’. Journalism, 13(4): 529-538 Thomas, R. J. (2012) ‘Changing the Conversation: Can the Phone Hacking Scandal Lead to a New Covenant on Media Responsibilities?’ The Political Quarterly, 83 (3): 524–531. Lloyd, J. (2015) ‘Regulate Yourself’, Political Quarterly 86 (3): 393-402 Barnett, S. & J.Townend (2014) ‘And What Good Came of it at Last?’ Press–Politician Relations Post-Leveson’, Political Quarterly, 85 (2): 159-169. Barnett, S. (2013) ‘Leveson Past, Present and Future: The Politics of Press Regulation’. Political Quarterly, 84 (3): 353-361.