Distorting defense: network news and national security
- Westport, Conn., USA: Praeger, 1999
- 262p.
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.
0275963039 (hbk.): 55.00(?)US
MEDIA BIAS NEWS REPORTING TELEVISION UNITED STATES--DEFENCE UNITED STATES--NATIONAL SECURITY