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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... role of the press in the foreign policy setting ? In what ways may economics , journal- istic practice , ideology , and ethnocentrism affect how the press per- forms in covering U.S. client states in the Third World ? We believe that ...
... role of the press in the foreign policy setting ? In what ways may economics , journal- istic practice , ideology , and ethnocentrism affect how the press per- forms in covering U.S. client states in the Third World ? We believe that ...
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... role of the press in the foreign policy process , and we know of no study such as ours that examines how the press covered a client state over so long a period of time . Moreover , in our view , the relationship of the United States ...
... role of the press in the foreign policy process , and we know of no study such as ours that examines how the press covered a client state over so long a period of time . Moreover , in our view , the relationship of the United States ...
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... role , functioning like a searchlight that moves " rest- lessly about , bringing one episode and then another out of the dark- ness into vision . " His biographer , Ronald Steel , has pointed out what was equally important in Lippmann's ...
... role , functioning like a searchlight that moves " rest- lessly about , bringing one episode and then another out of the dark- ness into vision . " His biographer , Ronald Steel , has pointed out what was equally important in Lippmann's ...
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... roles assigned them in democratic theory . Following World War II , for instance , the frequently indifferent if occasionally intrusive public of the 1920s of which Lippmann wrote was trans- formed into a citizenry with far more of a ...
... roles assigned them in democratic theory . Following World War II , for instance , the frequently indifferent if occasionally intrusive public of the 1920s of which Lippmann wrote was trans- formed into a citizenry with far more of a ...
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... role is no exception , for popular concern about the war was aroused only after 1968 , when the point of deep American involvement had long passed . Whatever the explanation , the president usually is allowed to do things with foreign ...
... role is no exception , for popular concern about the war was aroused only after 1968 , when the point of deep American involvement had long passed . Whatever the explanation , the president usually is allowed to do things with foreign ...
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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