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The Glasgow Media Group (also known as the Glasgow University Media Group or GUMG), is a group of researchers formed at the University of Glasgow in 1974, which pioneered the analysis of television news in a series of studies.[1] Operating under the GUMG banner, academics like its founders Greg Philo and John Eldridge have consistently argued that television news is biased in favour of powerful forces in society over issues like Israel/ Palestine, Northern Ireland and refugees.[2]

Impact

In 1982 Really Bad News reached number five on the Glasgow Evening Times best sellers list [3] and other GUMG titles have remained popular on social science courses at universities. Mainstream media outlets have responded to GUMG criticisms. When War and Peace News was published in 1985, it was attacked by the editor of ITN. BBC Two made an eponymous programme based on the book as part of their BBC2 Open Space series but before broadcast it removed certain aspects of the programme, including minutes leaked from their own editorial meetings. The resulting publicity led to the GUMG being described in the Observer as ‘academic hit men stalking television’s newscasters’.

Publications

References

  1. ^ http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/mediagroup/index.htm, accessed 19 September 2008
  2. ^ "Glasgow Media Group Timeline" (PDF). Glasgow Media Group. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  3. ^ Glasgow Evening Times (1982), 28th May
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