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A Summary Of Power Without Responsibility

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It is asserted by James Currun and Jean Seaton in ‘Power without Responsibility’ (1981) that the radical news press in the 19th century Britain was predominantly owned by the working class and news content was generated for a working class audience which effectively evoked their class consciousness. Whereby, the radical press created papers that “promoted a greater collective confidence by repeatedly emphasising the potential power of working people to effect social change” (Curren and Seaton, 1981). However, due to the rising costs of the media production, the radical press was deteriorating and thus was eventually replaced by the popular press which was owned by the ruling class as they could afford to maintain the production costs of the

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