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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... mass jubilation in Iran over the departure , and apparent defeat , of the Shah of Iran . . . . For all his arrogance and ruthlessness , the Shah used his power in many constructive ways — education of the masses , the emancipation of ...
... mass jubilation in Iran over the departure , and apparent defeat , of the Shah of Iran . . . . For all his arrogance and ruthlessness , the Shah used his power in many constructive ways — education of the masses , the emancipation of ...
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... mass re- bellion against the established regimes . Indeed , no one , journalist or otherwise , should permit himself or herself to conclude that he or she knew the outcome of a popular revolutionary movement in ad- vance . For history ...
... mass re- bellion against the established regimes . Indeed , no one , journalist or otherwise , should permit himself or herself to conclude that he or she knew the outcome of a popular revolutionary movement in ad- vance . For history ...
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... mass media have an educative function , that they produce learning , whether distorted or not , partic- ularly in foreign news situations about which little is previously known . During the tumultuous period of the 1978 revolution , for ...
... mass media have an educative function , that they produce learning , whether distorted or not , partic- ularly in foreign news situations about which little is previously known . During the tumultuous period of the 1978 revolution , for ...
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... mass citizenry . What we choose to call inherent limitations theory has been most clearly stated by Walter Lippmann in Public Opinion . Lippmann , who came to have little faith in the competence of either the press or public opin- ion ...
... mass citizenry . What we choose to call inherent limitations theory has been most clearly stated by Walter Lippmann in Public Opinion . Lippmann , who came to have little faith in the competence of either the press or public opin- ion ...
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... mass communication as one of the major forces in politics , but rather its emergence to fill virtually the whole gap in the electoral process left by the default of other independent elites who used to help manage the choice [ of a ...
... mass communication as one of the major forces in politics , but rather its emergence to fill virtually the whole gap in the electoral process left by the default of other independent elites who used to help manage the choice [ of a ...
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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