How powerful are the news media? In what way do they operate as agents of social control, and to what extent is command of information necessary to gain and maintain power in this age of global communication?

Agents of Power: The Media and Public Policy, explores timely issues in media and public policy to emphasise the interdependence of mass media and politics. A "global" book about a "global" world on the brink of the twenty-first century, it focuses on actual political, economic and cultural events. Updated and fully revised second edition with expanded chapters.