War Stories [Elektronisk resurs] The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War.

• Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; News, Opinion, and Foreign Policy; Politics across the Water's Edge; Elite Rhetoric, Media Coverage, and Rallying 'Round the Flag; War Meets the Press; Shot by the Messenger; Tidings of Battle; "Reality Asserted Itself"; Barbarians inside the Gates; Back to the Future; References; Index. 

• How does the American public formulate its opinions about U.S. foreign policy and military engagement abroad? War Stories argues that the media systematically distort the information the public vitally needs to determine whether to support such initiatives, for reasons having more to do with journalists' professional interests than the merits of the policies, and that this has significant consequences for national security. Matthew Baum and Tim Groeling develop a "strategic bias" theory that explains the foreign-policy communication process as a three-way interaction among the press, politica 

Ämnesord

Foreign news --United States. 

Iraq War, 2003- --Journalists. 

Press and politics --United States. 

Public opinion --United States. 

United States --Foreign relations --Public opinion. 

War --Press coverage --United States. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

PN4888.W37B38 2010 (LCC)

070.4/333 (DDC)

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