Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban.
Author: CORCORAN, Mary P. & O’BRIEN, Mark (Editors).
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. 151 pages. Paperback.
The issue of media censorship has assumed an increased relevance in the light of the ‘war on terror’. But for over twenty years broadcast journalists in Ireland were lawfully prohibited from broadcasting interviews with members of proscribed organisations. This had major implications for how the Northern conflict was portrayed by the media, debated by politicians and understood by the public. This book details how a single instance of censorship raises universal concerns about the often-fraught relationship between the state and the media in hundreds of countries across the globe. It examines broadcast censorship from a variety of perspectives and asks whether censorship imposed in the name of democracy can ever be justified.
Mary P. Corcoran is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth and has published widely in the field of sociology. Mark O’Brien is a lecturer in sociology and media studies in the School of Communications, Dublin City University.
ISBN: 1851828699
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