The social construction of international news : we're talking about them, they're talking about us / Philo C. Wasburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wasburn, Philo C.

Series:

Praeger series in political communication 1062-5623

Praeger series in political communication, 1062-5623

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign news.

Physical Description:

xv, 184 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Summary:

Compares U.S. news reports on a variety of major political events with those produced by the media abroad.

Contents:

Part I What Our News Media Say

1 We're Talking about Us: The Social Construction of the United States by America's Commercial News Media 7

2 We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Wars between Other Nations 23

3 We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Other Nations' Internal Wars and Assassinations 47

Part II What Their News Media Say: Four Case Studies

4 The United States as a Former Enemy: Russian National Television Construction of the United States after the Collapse of the Soviet Union 73

5 The United States as a World Military Power: An Indonesian Newspaper's View of the United States in the Persian Gulf Crisis 93

6 The United States as a World Economic Power: Radio Japan's View of the United States in International Trade Disputes 109

7 The United States as a Friend-at-a-Distance: Views of the 1996 Presidential Nominating Conventions and the Presidential Inauguration on British, Canadian, and French Television 127

Part III Implications

8 Reassessing Our News Media and Our Understanding of Others and Ourselves 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and indexes.

ISBN:

0275978109

OCLC:

49584066