Reporters Under Fire: U.S. Media Coverage of Conflicts in Lebanon and Central America

ISBN-13: 9780367301156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 155 str.

Landrum R. Bolling

Opis

This book explores the powerful role of the media in the shaping of American politics, including diplomatic and military policies by analyzing the political impact of television coverage of battlefield scenes and the practical limitations and difficulties under which the media must work.

Spis treści

Westview Replica Editions -- Foreword -- Introduction -- List of Seminar Participants -- Questions on Media Coverage of Recent Wars -- The War in Lebanon -- Published Analyses of Media Coverage of the 1982 War in Lebanon -- Discussion of Media Coverage in Central America -- Published Critiques of Media Coverage of Central America -- Reflections on Media Coverage of the Third World

O autorze

Landrum R. Bolling is president of the Inter-Faith Academy of Peace and was research professor of diplomacy at Georgetown University from 1981–1983. He is coauthor (with Craig Smith) of Private Foreign Aid: U.S. Philanthropy in Relief and Development (Westview, 1982).