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Distorting defense: network news and national security

By:

AUBIN Stephen P

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Westport, Conn., USA: Praeger, 1999Description: 262pISBN:

0275963039 (hbk.):

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Summary: Study of coverage of U.S. national defence issues by the main American network television evening news programmes. Demonstrates that these programmes had a tendency to over-simplify complex subjects, to focus on "news", and foster stereotypes of a corrupt defence industry and wasteful government defence projects.

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Study of coverage of U.S. national defence issues by the main American network television evening news programmes. Demonstrates that these programmes had a tendency to over-simplify complex subjects, to focus on "news", and foster stereotypes of a corrupt defence industry and wasteful government defence projects.

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