1st Edition

Images of the Enemy Reporting the New Cold War

By Brian McNair Copyright 1988
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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