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I am a teacher in the UK, I run a helpline for stressed teachers. I am a member of the NUT and the Socialist Party. I read the Socialist, The Guardian, the Observer and my favourite TV program is Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman

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Arts & Humanities > Literature (Other) Book reviews: The Media in Question, by Robert Ferguson

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The Media in Question Robert Ferguson ISBN 0-340-74078-7 Media Studies appears on the curriculum in your child's school but a popular front stretching from Polly Toynbee in the Guardian to Chris Woodhead in the Telegraph denigrate it as a "soft option" and suggest that anyone who studies or researches it is wasting their time. They would much prefer it, for example, if their prose were read without any analysis. Not only does Robert Ferguson champion this much-maligned subject but he also adopts a heretical view on teaching it. For him it is not a subject which casts the teacher in the rol...

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