Glasgow Media Group
{{Short description|UK Media Research Center that pioneered some of the first studies of media bias}}
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The Glasgow Media Group (also referred to as the [https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/gumg/ Glasgow University Media Group], the GUMG, and the Glasgow Media Unit), is a group of researchers formed at the University of Glasgow in 1974, which pioneered the analysis of television news in a series of studies.{{Cite web |title=University of Glasgow – Research – Research units A-Z – Glasgow University Media Group |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/gumg/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=gla.ac.uk}} Operating under the GUMG banner, academics including its founders Brian Winston, Greg Philo and John Eldridge have consistently postulated that television news is biased in favour of powerful forces such as governments, transnational corporations and the rich over issues like climate change, conflicts such as Israel/Palestine, Northern Ireland, welfare benefits, economics and refugees.{{Cite journal |last=Eldridge |first=John |date=2000-01-01 |title=The Contribution of the Glasgow Media Group to the Study of Television and Print Journalism |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/146167000361203 |journal=Journalism Studies |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=113–127 |doi=10.1080/146167000361203 |s2cid=143871444 |issn=1461-670X|url-access=subscription }}
Impact
In 1982, Really Bad News, the sequel to the Group's earlier books Bad News and More Bad News, reached number five on the Glasgow Evening Times best sellers listGlasgow Evening Times 28 May 1982 {{specify|date=February 2022}} and other GUMG titles have remained popular on social science courses at universities.
In 1985, BBC Two made an eponymous programme based on War and Peace News as part of their Open Space series but before broadcast it removed certain aspects of the programme, including minutes leaked from their own editorial meetings. As a result, the GUMG secured a screen-card reading CENSORED and another suggesting that viewers write and complain to the BBC's Director General. The resulting publicity led to the editor of ITN, David Nicholas, attacking the bookThe Times, "ITN Chief Joins BBC Row Over Falklands War", Monday 30 September 1985Television News (1985), Fighting Over the Falklands {{specify|date=February 2022}} and to The Observer describing the GUMG as 'academic hit men stalking television's newscasters'.Observer, Sunday 13 October 1985 {{specify|date=February 2022}}
In 2010, Greg Philo proposed a wealth tax based on a poll of UK population which showed "very strong support, with 74% of the population approving" of the proposal to address inequality, making the case in The Guardian.{{Cite web |date=2010-08-15 |title=Deficit crisis: let's really be in it together {{!}} Greg Philo |url=http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/aug/15/deficit-crisis-tax-the-rich |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}
In 2011, Emma Briant, Greg Philo and Nick Watson from the Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research published Bad News for Disabled People, which was discussed in the UK and Scottish parliaments and used in evidence in the Leveson Inquiry into the British Press.Leveson Inquiry Evidence Submission – Briant, Philo & Watson (2011) Bad News for Disabled People, with Inclusion London: https://discoverleveson.com/evidence/Submission_by_Glasgow_University/8462/media On 14 November 2011, the report was directly cited by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson in a welfare reform debate in the UK House of Lords as evidence of widespread misrepresentation of disabled people and disability benefits. Also in November 2011, the Shadow Minister for Disability Issues Kate Green MP referred directly to the findings in a UK House of Commons debate on disability hate crime.Impact Case Study – Research Evaluation Framework 2014 https://impact.ref.ac.uk/casestudies2/refservice.svc/GetCaseStudyPDF/21348
In 2012, Catherine Happer and Greg Philo published a collaborative research report with Antony Froggatt of Chatham House examining public beliefs and behaviours on climate change and energy security. They found "widespread confusion" due to media representations and politicization of the issue had resulted in falling media coverage, leading to a lack of trust of political voices on the subject and lack of recognition among the public of the issue's importance.
In 2013, Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald's book Bad News for Refugees, a first study of the emerging refugee crisis in the UK media prior to Brexit, was included in a Scottish Refugee Council submission to Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Asylum & Media.{{Cite web |title=Refugee Council submits evidence to Parliamentary inquiry into asylum {{!}} Electronic Immigration Network |url=https://www.ein.org.uk/news/refugee-council-submits-evidence-parliamentary-inquiry-asylum |access-date=2022-12-13 |website=www.ein.org.uk}}
Chatham House and Glasgow University Media Group, in a 2015 report titled "Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption" also were the first to call for a tax on red meat, known as the Meat Tax.{{cite web|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-carbon-tax-on-meat/|title=A Carbon Tax on Meat?|first=Niina|last=Heikkinen|website=Scientificamerican.com|accessdate=5 January 2018}}
Members
The Glasgow University Media Group is composed of scholars and specialists in the area of communications, many of whom worked originally in the Glasgow University Media Unit whose Research Director was Greg Philo and many who have now retired or moved on.{{Cite web|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/gumg/about/|title=University of Glasgow – Research – Research units A-Z – Glasgow University Media Group – About us}}
Past and present members who have published with the group include:
- John Eldridge (Founder, retired Affiliate Research Fellow){{Cite web|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/index.html/staffcontact/person/4cddebe28693|title = University of Glasgow – Schools – School of Social & Political Sciences – Our Staff – John Eldridge}}
- Brian Winston (Founder, now University of Lincoln){{Cite web|url=https://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/bwinston|title=Staff Directory}}
- Greg Philo (Founder, Director of the Glasgow Media Group)
- [https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/catherinehapper/ Catherine Happer] (Director of the Glasgow University Media Group 2022- ){{Cite web|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/catherinehapper/|title = University of Glasgow – Schools – School of Social & Political Sciences – Our Staff – Dr Catherine Happer}}
- David Miller (now University of Bristol){{Cite web |url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/david-miller |title=David Miller – University of Bristol |access-date=29 August 2021 |archive-date=29 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829021429/https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/david-miller |url-status=dead }}
- Mike Berry (now Cardiff University){{Cite web|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/182914-berry-mike|title = Dr Mike Berry}}
- Emma Briant (now Monash University){{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8003-992X |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=orcid.org}}
- Rena Bivens (now Carleton University)
- Lesley Henderson
- Giuliana Tiripelli
- Jen Burke
- Hayes Mabweazara
- Dominic Hinde
Publications
- Bad News, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976.
- [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/18439 More Bad News] Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.
- Glasgow University Media Group [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/090649544X Really Bad News], Writers and Readers, 1982.
- Greg Philo [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415036216 Seeing and Believing], Routledge, 1990
- John Eldridge (Ed.) Getting the Message: News, Truth and Power (Routledge, 1993)
- John Eldridge (Ed.) [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415127300 News Content, Language and Visuals: Glasgow University Media Reader] (Communication and Society) (Paperback), Routledge, 1995.
- Greg Philo (Ed.) [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415130379 Industry, Economy, War and Politics: Glasgow University Media Reader: 2] (Communication and Society) (Paperback), Routledge, 1995.
- John Eldridge, J. Kitzinger and K. Williams) The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press,1997)
- David Miller, Jenny Kitzinger, Peter Beharrel and Kevin Williams [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0803977034 The Circuit of Mass Communication: Media Strategies, Representation and Audience Reception in the AIDS Crisis], Sage, 1998.
- Greg Philo [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0582298008 Message Received] (Paperback), Longman, 1999.
- Greg Philo and David Miller [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/058238236X Market Killing: What the free market does and what social scientists can do about it] (Paperback), Longman, 2000.
- [https://openlibrary.org/a/OL3949316A Reporting Child Deaths] by Glasgow Media Group (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), 1 February 2001) Paperback
- Greg Philo and Mike Berry [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0745320619 Bad News From Israel], Pluto, 2004.
- Greg Philo and Mike Berry [https://www.amazon.com/More-News-Israel-Greg-Philo/dp/0745329799/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2N5BO1SOZP1UY&keywords=greg+philo&qid=1656611682&s=books&sprefix=greg+philo%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C181&sr=1-4More Bad News from Israel], Pluto 2011
- Emma Briant, Greg Philo & Nick Watson Bad News for Disabled People: How the Newspapers are Reporting Disability,{{Cite web |last1=Briant |first1=E. |last2=Watson |first2=N. |last3=Philo |first3=G. |date=2011 |title=Bad News for Disabled People: How the Newspapers are Reporting Disability |url=http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/57499/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=eprints.gla.ac.uk |language=en}} Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research and Glasgow Media Unit, University of Glasgow, 2011
- Greg Philo, Emma Briant and Pauline Donald; [https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745334325/bad-news-for-refugees/ Bad News for Refugees], Pluto, 2013.
- Laura Wellesley, Catherine Happer, Antony Froggatt, Greg Philo, Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption,{{Cite web |last1=Wellesley |first1=Laura |last2=Happer |first2=Catherine |last3=Froggatt |first3=Antony |last4=Philo |first4=Gregory |title=Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption |url=https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/CHHJ3820%20Diet%20and%20climate%20change%2018.11.15_WEB_NEW.pdf |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=chathamhouse.org |language=en-GB |publication-date=2015-11-01}} Chatham House, London, 2015
- Alan MacLeod; [https://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Venezuela-misreporting-Communication/dp/1138489239/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1524768350&sr=8-6&keywords=alan+macleod Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting], Routledge, 2018.
- Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman, David Miller, Bad News For Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief, [https://www.plutobooks.com/9781786805720/bad-news-for-labour/], Pluto Press, 2019.
- Catherine Happer, Philip Schlesinger, Ana Langer, Hayes Mabweazara, Dominic Hinde, 'Scotland's Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis
',{{Cite web |last1=Happer |first1=Catherine |last2=Schlesinger |first2=Philip |last3=Langer |first3=Ana Ines |last4=Mabweazara |first4=Hayes |last5=Hinde |first5=Dominic |date=2022-09-30 |title=Scotland's Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis |url=https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/276125/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=eprints.gla.ac.uk |language=en}} University of Glasgow, 2022.
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