The U.S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of DeferenceUniversity of California Press, 2023 M04 28 - 300 pages No one seriously interested in the character of public knowledge and the quality of debate over American alliances can afford to ignore the complex link between press and policy and the ways in which mainstream journalism in the U.S. portrays a Third World ally. The case of Iran offers a particularly rich view of these dynamics and suggests that the press is far from fulfilling the watchdog role assigned it in democratic theory and popular imagination. |
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... news media inform the American people about " the decisive power " in the gulf region during its increasingly inti- mate twenty - five - year association with the United States ? Did the press , as democratic theory supposes it should ...
... news media inform the American people about " the decisive power " in the gulf region during its increasingly inti- mate twenty - five - year association with the United States ? Did the press , as democratic theory supposes it should ...
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... press and its bearing on foreign policy in that no other Third World country has figured so prominently in American fortunes since World War II as has Iran . We should be clear from the beginning that we believe the link between press ...
... press and its bearing on foreign policy in that no other Third World country has figured so prominently in American fortunes since World War II as has Iran . We should be clear from the beginning that we believe the link between press ...
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... press consciously set out to serve either the shah or U.S. policy makers . Moreover , we should make it clear that we have great respect for the ideal of a free press , and it is precisely because we consider the American press to be ...
... press consciously set out to serve either the shah or U.S. policy makers . Moreover , we should make it clear that we have great respect for the ideal of a free press , and it is precisely because we consider the American press to be ...
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... American public was told about Iran by the press during a close association between the two countries which lasted fully one - quarter of a century . We will contrast the journalistic version of reality with what there was to be known ...
... American public was told about Iran by the press during a close association between the two countries which lasted fully one - quarter of a century . We will contrast the journalistic version of reality with what there was to be known ...
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... American press cov- erage of Iran for twenty - five years was to ignore the politics of the country . This failure was rooted in the assumption that the political aspirations of Iranians did not really matter . This was an assumption ...
... American press cov- erage of Iran for twenty - five years was to ignore the politics of the country . This failure was rooted in the assumption that the political aspirations of Iranians did not really matter . This was an assumption ...
Contents
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The Consolidation of Power 19541962 | 63 |
Modernization Myth and Media 19631973 | 82 |
Further Illusions 19631973 | 116 |
The New Persian Empire 19731977 | 131 |
The Press and the 1978 Revolution West Meets East | 152 |
Journalism as Capitalism | 183 |
The Journalism of Deference | 201 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Notes | 237 |
Index | 265 |
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