ABSTRACT
Social Policy, the Media and Misrepresentation examines aspects of news media reporting of social policy and how such coverage can influence processes of policy-making and implementation. It offers an appraisal of the complex inter-relationships between news media, news sources, the content of media coverage of social policy and its impact on audiences, public opinion and policy makers. Through detailed case studies, the various contributors explore:
*social work and child protection
*housing and homelessness
*the charity and voluntary sectors
*poverty and welfare policy
*health (including HIV/AIDS) and mental health
*education and crime and juvenile justice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
PART I Producing social policy news
chapter |12 pages
Media coverage of social policy: a journalists perspective
chapter |18 pages
Charitable images: the construction of voluntary sector news
part |2 pages
PART 2 The media reporting of social policy
chapter |15 pages
Poor relations: state social work and the press in the U K
chapter |14 pages
Home truths: media representations of homelessness
chapter |17 pages
The picture of health? Media coverage of the health service
chapter |11 pages
Media and mental health
chapter |11 pages
Thinking the unthinkable: welfare reform and the media
chapter |17 pages
Are you paying attention? Education and the media
chapter |17 pages
Exorcising demons: media, politics and criminal justice
part |2 pages
PART 3 The media reporting of social policy: case studies