1st Edition

Reporters Under Fire U.s. Media Coverage Of Conflicts In Lebanon And Central America

By Landrum R Bolling Copyright 1985
155 Pages
by Routledge

155 Pages
by Routledge

155 Pages
by Routledge

News media professionals, especially those covering political events or wars, are often accused of distorting the news or presenting biased and superficial analyses. Coverage of the recent conflicts in Central America and the Middle East has been especially controversial. In this volume, which is based on a series of seminars sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown... Read more
Westview Replica Editions -- Foreword -- Introduction -- List of Seminar Participants -- Questions on Media Coverage of Recent Wars -- The War in Lebanon -- Published Analyses of Media Coverage of the 1982 War in Lebanon -- Discussion of Media Coverage in Central America -- Published Critiques of Media Coverage of Central America -- Reflections on Media Coverage of the Third World

Biography

Landrum R. Bolling is president of the Inter-Faith Academy of Peace and was research professor of diplomacy at Georgetown University from 1981–1983. He is coauthor (with Craig Smith) of Private Foreign Aid: U.S. Philanthropy in Relief and Development (Westview, 1982).