Understanding News

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

People whose names appear on the front pages of newspapers are rarely the sole authors of the actions they are credited with. And men who engage in ‘their’ work usually require the equally productive but invisible work of women in order to ‘free’ themselves for the task in hand. Those who actually produce the goods are relegated to the inside pages and supposedly ‘non-productive’ spheres – like the kitchen.

So it is with publishing. This book was cooked up between myself and, above all others, Carol Owen. It is my pleasure, then, to acknowledge her ‘invisible’ half of the work: most of the jouissance I’ve got out of this text comes from her part in it.

Thanks too to Roland Denning, of the Chapter Film Workshop, Cardiff, for valuable ...