Book Review: Karen McNally (ed.), American Television during a Television Presidency (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2022).

Press, Radio and Television

Electronic press: 'Press-like' or 'television-like'?

A notable development of recent times has been the exponential increase of video content available on newspaper websites. The technological convergence between press and broadcasting throws into sharp relief the historically disparate regulation of the two sectors. As long as no political consensus on regulatory convergence can be reached, the question of how to distinguish between text-based a...

Parliament, Press, Radio and Television

House of Commons Debates Prisons: During an Adjournment Debate on February 6th, 1963, Mr. Leo Abse stated that "in 1961, on more than 100 occasions men and women in our prisons and borstals were placed in straitjackets. More than half of the women suffering this treatment were young women inside our borstals." He also stated that strait-jackets, the use of which had in effect been abandoned by ...

Parliament, Press, Radio and Television

16th July: Adjournment Debate on the Probation service?pay and conditions. 23rd July: Mr. Van Straubenzee asked the Minister of Health how many young Persons aged 14, 15, 16 and 17 respectively, are at present detained in Broadmoor: whether his regulations prescribe any minimum age for such detention: and what special arrangements are made f?r the accommodation and treatment ?f such young perso...

Television and the Brain : a Review

In recent years, a ,iumber of claims have appeared in the popular media and press suggesting that television viewing has potentially detrimental effects on human brain development or activity. An extensive review of the published scientific literature finds that virtually no credible experimental evidence appears to exist in the current literature which specifically relates to the effects of te...