by Bruce Page
Metromedia Company, 260
MI6, 372, 377
Mirrorscope, 102, 103, 104, 107, 109, 419
monetarism, 222, 237, 242
monopoly, 8, 9, 13, 17, 19, 22, 78, 80, 87, 93, 137, 142, 145, 158, 181, 240, 251,
253, 254, 257, 273, 305, 307, 308, 311, 313, 315, 317, 318, 322, 338, 346, 347,
348, 349, 353, 357, 365, 366, 370, 383, 393, 414, 438, 443
monopoly of, 9, 240, 273, 370, 443
Moorehead, Alan, 459
Morgan Grenfell, 87, 88, 193, 197, 416
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 459
Muckrakers, 155, 424
NASDAQ, 15
National Star, 122, 154
nature of, 18, 32, 81, 92, 118, 269, 336, 352, 365, 425, 435, 437
NBN-6 Newcastle, 79
Neil, Andrew, 459
Nevinson, Henry, 459
New York Herald Tribune, 92
New York Post, 21, 111, 121, 146, 147, 151, 160, 192, 193, 213, 222, 246, 247,
259, 261, 262, 263, 334, 337, 347, 348, 358, 367, 369, 383, 385, 415 New York Times, 10, 12, 13, 22, 25, 35, 37, 38, 53, 54, 97, 121, 124, 125, 154,
158, 169, 208, 217, 246, 343, 354, 368, 369, 379, 380, 381, 386, 406, 421, 424,
435
News, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 19, 25, 35, 38, 41, 42, 44, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 68, 69,
71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93,
95, 96, 98, 99, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 116, 118, 119, 120, 122, 123,
127, 128, 129, 136, 144, 153, 155, 158, 159, 161, 164, 169, 178, 183, 190, 193,
194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 205, 207, 208, 209, 211, 213, 214, 216, 217, 234, 235,
238, 239, 242, 251, 253, 254, 255, 257, 259, 260, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267,
271, 279, 281, 287, 288, 289, 290, 298, 306, 307, 310, 312, 315, 316, 328, 332,
333, 338, 353, 356, 360, 363, 371, 376, 378, 384, 385, 386, 388, 389, 390, 391,
392, 394, 395, 396, 398, 401, 406, 410, 412, 413, 414, 416, 417, 420, 421, 424,
426, 429, 433, 437, 438, 445, 453, 455, 460, 461
News Ltd, 68, 71, 72, 73, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 88, 89, 90, 99, 106, 116, 118,
120, 123, 128, 129, 159, 193, 253, 257, 281, 307, 401, 413
News of the World, 8, 9, 12, 15, 19, 61, 73, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 98,
113, 122, 144, 155, 178, 190, 193, 213, 214, 217, 234, 235, 238, 271, 298, 333,
363, 384, 385, 388, 389, 390, 396, 410, 416, 417, 453
Newscorp, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 32, 41, 45,
46, 53, 54, 55, 61, 62, 65, 66, 77, 108, 110, 121, 122, 133, 139, 144, 145, 165,
166, 167, 188, 206, 209, 214, 217, 247, 257, 258, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266,
267, 273, 277, 281, 288, 289, 292, 301, 302, 303, 305, 306, 307, 308, 311, 313,
314, 315, 316, 317, 319, 321, 322, 328, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339,
343, 347, 348, 349, 350, 352, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363,
364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380,
382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 398, 399,
400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 408, 423, 429, 435, 452
Nobel Prize, 126, 232, 325, 353
numeracy, 108
Oakeshott, Michael, 459
objective journalism, 382
Observer, 12, 159, 172, 173, 209, 275, 277, 278, 288, 291, 292, 293, 350, 358,
377, 426, 428, 440, 441, 443, 445, 451
Ofcom, 9, 14, 16, 21, 389, 391, 392, 397, 401
official, 14, 15, 65, 72, 85, 87, 88, 97, 121, 123, 127, 130, 140, 176, 178, 180, 200,
202, 216, 220, 262, 272, 275, 279, 287, 293, 294, 295, 297, 299, 300, 304, 305,
306, 307, 308, 309, 326, 330, 335, 340, 351, 354, 367, 369, 370, 371, 372, 375,
376, 377, 378, 387, 389, 403, 404, 406, 411, 417, 433, 442, 444, 447, 451, 453 Operation Elveden, 9
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 366
Operation Weeting, 9
Optus, 307
Order of, 126
Oxford Labour Club, 55
Oxford University, 46, 408, 453, 454, 455, 457, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462 Paulos, John Allen, 459
Pearl Assurance, 91
Pearl, Cyril, 459
Pentagon, 124, 360, 373, 421, 455
Pentagon Papers, 124, 373, 421, 455
Pergamon Press, 87
Peterloo Massacre, 170, 174
Philadelphia Inquirer, 18, 158
political necrosis, 321
Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), 54
poll tax, 286, 446
Port Phillip Herald, 26, 27, 35, 402
Pravda, 308, 310
Press Complaints Commission, 10, 389
Price, 201, 202, 203, 458
Pringle, John Douglas, 459
Private Eye, 90, 440
Profumo affair, 90
Program on International Policy Attitudes, 376
Propaganda, 137, 351, 461
Psychology, 49, 406
public face of, 287
Pulitzer Prize, 11, 157, 424, 425, 436
PwC, 201
Qantas, 119, 305, 306
Queensland Press, 63, 69, 314, 315, 402
Real IRA, 363
Register, 42, 169
reprimanded, 10
Reuters, 174, 191, 192, 193, 219, 220, 235, 287, 382, 458, 460
RNA, 339
Rolling Stones, 153
Royal Commission on the Press, 181, 448, 460
Saddam Hussein, 368, 372, 373, 375, 376, 377
San Francisco News, 50
SARS, 354
SAS, 178, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299, 442
satellite television, 9, 93, 277, 301, 311, 350, 354
Satellite Television Asia Region, 347, 354
Saville Commission, 180
SBC Warburg, 195
Schudson, Michael, 460
Second World War, 36, 45, 114, 124, 149, 153, 186, 269, 335, 370 secrecy, 130, 137, 140, 176, 267, 283, 315, 324, 325, 327, 330, 346, 354, 372,
450, 451
seditious libel, 27, 71, 72, 148
self-censorship, 357
Sen, Amartya, 460
sensationalism, 149, 154, 227
serious journalism, 241, 405
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, 354
Shapin, Steven, 460
Shawcross Commission, 181, 322
Shawcross, William, 460
Sky, 10, 15, 16, 192, 277, 297, 301, 308, 311, 312, 313, 314, 318, 349, 352, 383,
386, 393, 394, 443, 445, 457
Sky News, 16, 312, 313, 386, 393, 445
slavery, 22, 323, 326, 350, 450
SMH, 82, 115
Snoddy, Raymond, 460
SOGAT, 287, 441
Soham, 374
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 460
Spectator, 242, 335, 336, 412
Springboks, 116
Star, 43, 122, 157, 161, 224, 247, 250, 260, 296, 347, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353,
360, 421
Star Plus, 351
Star T-V, 347, 349
Star Wars, 260
Starbucks, 358
Starry Sky Satellite TV, 353, 355, 356
Sting, 310, 445
Strange Justice, 13, 458
stringers, 35
Suez, 77, 172, 368, 371, 373, 426, 452
suffrage, 27, 28
Sun News-Pictorial, 42, 44
Sun on Sunday, 15
Sunday Times, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 53, 54, 66, 89, 98, 100, 124, 169, 172,
173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 190, 191, 192,
193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 207, 208, 209,
219, 221, 223, 224, 226, 230, 233, 237, 238, 245, 259, 269, 272, 275, 276, 277,
278, 286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 317,
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339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 354, 356, 367, 377, 378, 385, 386, 398, 407, 408, 411,
416, 417, 421, 426, 427, 429, 435, 436, 437, 439, 440, 442, 449, 457 supermarket tabloids, 421
Taylor, A. J. P, 461
TBH, 183, 191
Television Corporation (Channel 9), 79
Television Wollongong Transmissions Ltd, 79
Telstra (Telecom Australia), 306
TEN-10, 193, 250, 436
terra nullius, 26, 62, 70, 401
Territorean, 82
Thames Television, 295, 297, 298, 301, 378, 442
Thatcher and, 169, 271, 273, 280, 281, 291, 294, 295, 432
Thatcherism, 222, 308, 328, 363, 456
Thomson National Transport, 118
Thomson Oil, 190
Thomson Organisation, 172, 179, 183, 185, 195, 202, 218
Tiananmen Square, 13, 24, 180, 350
Times, The, 461
TNT, 118, 291, 293, 441
Tonkin Gulf, 83, 368, 373, 452
totalitarianism, 93, 245, 333, 347, 348, 349, 352
Trinity Mirror, 394
Trollope, Anthony, 461
Truth chain, 30
Twopeny, Richard, 461
UK, 9, 15, 99, 278, 284, 285, 299, 313, 332, 369, 387, 401, 429, 430, 440, 442,
445
Vanity Fair, 359, 384
Venona, 335, 372
Viacom, 351
Vietnam War, 114, 126, 269
Village Voice, 247, 255
Wapping, 192, 268, 273, 275, 283, 284, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 293, 294,
441
Washington Post, 10, 12, 22, 34, 40, 46, 50, 77, 118, 123, 144, 158, 217, 275, 369,
373, 379, 380, 381, 386, 399, 421, 422
Watergate, 10, 11, 77, 123, 124, 125, 129, 136, 373, 421
weapons of mass destruction, 369, 377
Weber, Max, 462
Weekly Standard, 335, 349
West Australian, 42
West, Rebecca, 462
Westland crisis, 278, 293
White Australia, 50, 75, 242, 412
White, Patrick, 462
WIN-4 Wollongong, 90
WMD, 368, 369, 372, 373, 374, 376, 452
Wolfe, Humbert, 462
World News, 351
World Service, 153, 351
World War I, 410, 447, 457, 459
World War II, 410, 447, 457
WOT, 281, 367, 368
Xing Kong International, 360
Xing Kong Wei Shi, 353
Yorkshire Post, 369
Young, Hugo, 462
zero, 14, 77, 80, 115, 234, 300, 309, 323, 362, 365, 372
Ziff-Davis, 264