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Author:   Richard Shannon
Publisher:   John Murray Press
Imprint:   John Murray Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 23.90cm , Length: 4.20cm
Weight:   0.756kg
ISBN:  

9780719563218

ISBN 10:   0719563216
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   06 September 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements; Prologue: The Idea of a Self-Regulated Press in Britain; Introduction: The Long Road to the Last Chance Saloon, 1953-1989; 1. From Press Council to Press Complaints Commission, 1990; 2. 'The most curious quango known to political man': first phase of probation, 1991; 3. 'Getting perilously close to drinking-up time': last phase of probation, January-June 1992; 4. 'Damned for acting quickly and damned if we did not': McGregor impaled on the royals, June-July 1992; 5. Stay of Execution, July 1992-January 1993; 6. Calcutt strikes again - and misses: January-November 1993; 7. 'MGN has thrown a hand-grenade at us.' The Princess Diana gym-photos affair, November-December 1993; 8. Exit McGregor, enter Wakeham, 1994; 9. 'We are not out of the woods quite yet.' Wakeham takes over, January-July 1995; 10. 'I think we have turned the corner with the PCC.' July-December 1995; 11. Self-regulation 'delivering the goods'? A deceptively auspicious interlude, January-August 1996; 12. A 'failed strategy'? Paparazzi, privacy and the public interest, August 1996-January 1997; 13. New Labour, new questions, January-August 1997; 14. Death of a princess: the great Diana stampede, September-November 1997; 15. Battling the wigocracy: the Commission and the Human Rights Bill, November 1997-June 1998; 16. Imbibing the intoxicating liquor of survival, 1998-1999; 17. Self-regulation into the twenty-first century, 2000-2001; Appendix; Index

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Richard Shannon is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Wales, Swansea, and is the author of a widely acclaimed life of W.E. Gladstone. He lives in London.

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