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The lamps in Parliament Square glister across the Thames, the camera moves to Big Ben, a close-up, it’s ten o’clock — Bong! — the familiar voice of Reginald Bosanquet — ‘M.P.’s pay rise endangers Social Contract’ — Bong! — ‘Royal Family squares up for massive wage claim’ — Bong! — ‘British Leyland’s future threatened by huge dividend payouts’ — Bong! — ‘Traffic to be disrupted by Queen’s Procession’.
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© 1977 Francis Beckett, Peter Beharrell, J. Brooke Crutchley, Howard Davis, Peter Golding, Andrew Goodman, Toni Griffiths, John Hewitt, Tony Marshall, Graham Murdock, Greg Philo, Alan Sapper, Paul Walton, Jock Young
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Philo, G., Beharrell, P., Hewitt, J. (1977). One-dimensional News — Television and the Control of Explanation. In: Beharrell, P., Philo, G. (eds) Trade Unions and the Media. Critical Social Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03424-6_1
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