AUBIN Stephen P

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