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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... situations in the Middle East , Africa , and Asia in which the United States now finds itself involved or is likely to in the future . In brief , based on an extensive study of twenty - five years of press coverage of Iran by the ...
... situations in the Middle East , Africa , and Asia in which the United States now finds itself involved or is likely to in the future . In brief , based on an extensive study of twenty - five years of press coverage of Iran by the ...
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... situation . Thus the kind or degree of this improvement was not treated as a serious question . Certainly , by late 1978 the fundamentalist clergy under the sur- prisingly decisive leadership of Ayatollah Khomaini had come to overshadow ...
... situation . Thus the kind or degree of this improvement was not treated as a serious question . Certainly , by late 1978 the fundamentalist clergy under the sur- prisingly decisive leadership of Ayatollah Khomaini had come to overshadow ...
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... situations about which little is previously known . During the tumultuous period of the 1978 revolution , for instance , Americans depended heavily on the mass media , as they usually do for news of foreign affairs , and despite their ...
... situations about which little is previously known . During the tumultuous period of the 1978 revolution , for instance , Americans depended heavily on the mass media , as they usually do for news of foreign affairs , and despite their ...
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... situation - to - situation basis a highly generalized sense of things : of what is required and of what is not ; of who is enemy and who is friend . The press sets the broad limits of our thinking about the " other . " According to Prof ...
... situation - to - situation basis a highly generalized sense of things : of what is required and of what is not ; of who is enemy and who is friend . The press sets the broad limits of our thinking about the " other . " According to Prof ...
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... situations , whether they occur during a political campaign or not , also temporarily increase the size of the attentive foreign pol- icy audience . These crises can range from the manufactured ( the early 1960s missile gap or the ...
... situations , whether they occur during a political campaign or not , also temporarily increase the size of the attentive foreign pol- icy audience . These crises can range from the manufactured ( the early 1960s missile gap or the ...
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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1978 revolution abroad According American journalists American press analysis argued August began believe Christian Science Monitor Communist correspondents Cottam coup coverage of Iran crisis critical dominant economic editorial elections elites events of 1978 evidence forces foreign affairs foreign policy headlined human rights Ibid ideology important instance interest International involvement Iran's Iranian Iranian revolution Islam January journalism journalists judgment Keddie Kennett Love Khomaini land reform liberal mainstream press majles major ment Middle East military modernization Mohammed Mossadegh Mosaddeq Mossadegh Nationalism in Iran newspaper Newsweek official opinion opposition Pahlavi Pahlavi dynasty particularly percent political popular Premier press coverage published question readers reality regime's religious reporters result revolutionary Reza role Roots of Revolution SAVAK shah Shah of Iran shah's regime significant social Soviet story Tehran Third World tion Tudeh U.S. press United Vietnam Washington Post White Revolution wrote York Zahedi