Distorting defense: network news and national security

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn., USA: Praeger, 1999Description: 262pISBN:
  • 0275963039 (hbk.):
Subject(s): 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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