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The Westminster Lobby correspondents have a special place in both the politics and the mass media of Britain. These journalists dominate the behind-the-scenes reporting of British national politics. In this book, originally published in 1970, Jeremy Tunstall presents the first systematic social science study of the uniquely British phenomenon of Lobby correspondents.The study includes data collected from interviews with the national Lobby correspondents, who also completed lengthy questionnaires. It contains evidence of their careers, political opinions, pay, working conditions, relationships with their employing news organization and political news sources, and on the way in which the correspondents both compete with, and exchange information with, each other. As well as this fascinating empirical data, the book offers an important contribution to the sociology of politics and the mass media, and to the study of organizational intelligence' and the sociology of occupations.There had long centred upon the Lobby correspondents many myths and misconceptions, which Jeremy Tunstall effectively demolishes. (The so-called Lobby rules' were here published for the first time.) Other real dilemmas are, however, revealed: the competing demands of publicity and secrecy; the dilemmas of British politics in which basic principles - such as Parliamentary supremacy and Cabinet secrecy - are daily breached, not only by the correspondents, but also by leading politicians; and the problems of a system of political communication whose obsession with daily news values is so similar to official and academic contributions. With media and politics still very much linked today, this reissue can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Pt. 1. American media in decline. Anglo-American, global and Euro-American media versus media nationalism -- Television soap operas, telenovelas, Brazil -- From b2b to bedroom and from the United States to world -- Freakish media finances benefit number one -- Media moguls are national -- Anglo-American world news, public relations and unreported mass killings -- US world media peak around 1950 -- Since 1950. The United States looking superlative, while losing world media market share -- Decline. US media, moral authority, "sole superpower" -- pt. 2. Big population countries: India and China. The rise of big population countries and their media -- India's multi-ring media circus -- China. capitalist-communist media stir-fry -- pt. 3. World media pecking order. World media pecking order -- Europe and Euro-American Media -- Africa. bottom of the media pecking order -- pt. 4. National media and world region media. National media system as lead player -- A separate Arab media bloc -- Spanish language media in Latin America -- Twenty-one new media nations replace communist media empire -- American media decline to continue?