Images of the Enemy (1985) discusses and decodes British television news coverage of the superpower disarmament talks and east–west crises such as the Korean airline incident. Through extensive interviews with journalists in London and Moscow, it examines the structures, organisations and political constraints that encouraged negative views of the USSR to flourish. Using Soviet and British reports of Chernobyl as a test case, it asks whether the impact of Gorbachev and glasnost improved conditions in coverage.
Part 1. Introductions 1. Television News: ‘A Vital Engine of this Great Democracy’ 2. The Nuclear Debate Part 2. Images of the Enemy 3. Reporting the Soviet Union 4. Making Soviet News 5. ‘Russia Condemned’: the Korean Airline Disaster 6. The Superpower Dialogue 7. Gorbachev, Glasnost and Chernobyl Part 3. The Domestic Debate 8. Peace Movement News 9. The Nuclear Election
Biography
Brian McNair
