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Informationen zum Autor PHILO C. WASBURN is Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. He is the author of Political Sociology: Approaches, Concepts, Hypotheses and Broadcast Propaganda: International Radio Broadcasting and the Construction of Political Reality (Praeger, 1992). Klappentext Wasburn compares U.S. commercial news reports on a wide variety of events with those produced by the news media of several other nations. The events include the Falklands War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Tiananmen Square Uprising, several political assassinations, major trade disputes between the U.S. and Japan, the Intifada , U.S. presidential nominating conventions and a presidential inauguration.Different patterns of coverage-amount of attention given an event, language used to describe an event, selection of particular occurrences to characterize an event, and descriptions of U.S. and international public opinion of the event-are shown to reflect different political, economic, and strategic interests of nations, historical contexts in which news was constructed, national differences in values that influence the production of news, and differences in historically specific relations between news media and the governments of their countries. Attention is given to contrasts between the national image of the United States constructed by U.S. commercial news media and the images of the United States produced by various foreign news media. This book will be of particular interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with political communication, journalism, political science, and political sociology. Zusammenfassung This analysis compares US news reports on a variety of major political events with those produced by the media abroad. Different patterns of coverage are shown to reflect different political! economic and strategic interests of nations! historical contexts in which news was constructed! and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction What Our News Media Say We're Talking about Us: The Social Construction of the United States by America's News Media We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Wars between Other Nations We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Other Nation's Internal Wars and Assassinations What Their News Media Say: Four Case Studies The U.S. as a Former Enemy: Russian National Television Construction of the U.S. After the Collapse of the Soviet Union The U.S. as a World Military Power: An Indonesian Newspaper's View of the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis The U.S. as a World Economic Power: Radio Japan's View of the U.S. in International Trade Disputes The U.S. as a Friend-at-a-Distance: Views of the 1996 Presidential Nominating Conventions and the Presidential Inauguration on British, Canadian, and French Television Implication Reassessing Our News Media and Reassessing Our Understanding of Others and of Ourselves References Author Index Subject Index ...
