Journal of International Affairs articles from June 1993

Journal of International Affairs archives from June 1993

The mass media and democracy: between the modern and the postmodern. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... John Chancellor was upset. Impeccably groomed and spoken, this visual icon of virtually the entire history of television journalism could hardly contain his distress. Beneath his characteristically genial manner, his anger showed, as he...

The media's role in U.S. foreign policy. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... WATCHDOG AND ADVERSARY MODELS OF THE MEDIA Spokespersons for the media regularly portray them as the country's watchdogs, who "root about in our national life, exposing what they deem right for exposure," without fear or favor.(1) Such...

Transnational media: creating consumers worldwide. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... By the end of the 1980s, "globalization " had become the term for accelerating interdependence.... The primary agent of globalization is the transnational corporation. The primary driping force is the revolution in information and ...

Toward a NWICO for the twenty-first century? (New World Information and Communication Order) (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... The rampant quest today for a so-called new world order is not new to contemporary international relations. In particular, the technologies and institutions of communication that have become so central to world politics and economics over the...

Sending cross-border static: on the fate of Radio Free Europe and the influence of international broadcasting. (an interview with former chair of the Board for International Broadcasting Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr.) (Power of the Media in the Global System) (Interview)
June 22, 1993... This interview was conducted amidst a national debate over the role of the U.S. government's overseas broadcasting services, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America (VOA). Noting the absence...

Democratization and forces in the African media. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... On 16 April 1993, the Journal of International Affairs sponsored a conference entitled "The Role of the Media and the Emergence of Democracy" at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. The conference brought together...

The press and power in the Russian Federation. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... The relationship of the Russian government to the central Moscow media has changed enormously during the last eight years. Once fully in control of the media, the government is now forced to resort to various tactics of persuasion and pressure...

Terrorism and censorship: the media in chains. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... When Israel invaded south Lebanon on 6 June 1982, 1 had been covering southern Africa out of Johannesburg for nearly a year and was eager to get out. Southern Africa was quiet and I was restless. Lebanon was a war -- the world's biggest story...

Public relations and international affairs: effects, ethics and responsibility. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... On 20 October 1990, during the escalation of the Persian Gulf crisis, a teary-eyed 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl known only as Nayirah testified to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus that she had seen Iraqi soldiers take babies from hospital...

Eclipse of reason: the media in the Muslim world. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... Following the March 1993 killing of 10 suspected Islamic militants and the wounding of 21 others by government security forces in Upper Egypt, a British correspondent in Cairo scoured the English-language Egyptian Gazette to see how these...

The market versus the state: the Chinese press since Tiananmen. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... Great changes in a society are often heralded by an unprecedented diffusion of information and debate over public affairs among individuals involved in increasingly diverse political and economic activities. This is the way civil society...

Living dangerously: issues of Peruvian press freedom. (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... One can complain of many things in Latin America, but not of dull uniformity. From bird-watching to watching -- or enduring -- revolutions, the overriding impression gotten from Latin America is that of the paradoxical variety, the at times...

The Cold War comes to Africa: Cordier and the 1960 Congo crisis. (UN diplomat Andrew Wellington Cordier) (Power of the Media in the Global System)
June 22, 1993... The spectacle is of the working of the political fate of human beings: the veiled logic which requires from political men actions which are the function of what they represent -- and to a lesser extent of what they are -- in circumstances which...

Rethinking Media Theory: Signposts and New Directions.
June 22, 1993... Armand and Michele Mattelart. Translated by James A. Cohen and Marina Urquidi. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1992) 219pp. As common wisdom would have it, there is the real world -- active, vital and above all relevant...

Words Like Colored Glass: The Role of the Press in Taiwan's Democratization Process.
June 22, 1993... Daniel Berman. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992) 237pp, At We end of We Second World War, few would have expected that Taiwan would take the fast track to economic prosperity. Japan had occupied the island for several decades, the allies...

Read All About It! The Corporate Takeover of America's Newspapers.
June 22, 1993... "You Americans talk about freedom of the press as freedom from governmental control. Sure enough, but what about Wall Street?" American journalists have heard these words from their European colleagues for years and, often, they have just...

Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News.
June 22, 1993... Since the Clinton administration took office, it has used the White House Office of Communications to try and manipulate media coverage in many of the same ways as did the Reagan administration. In many respects it has succeeded, and in so...

Telecommunications in Europe.
June 22, 1993... Eli Noam. (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1992) 523 pp. Telecommunications in Europe takes on the bold task of comprehensively addressing the economic and political issues affecting the telecommunications industry in the region. A...

Media Polls in American Politics.
June 22, 1993... Media Polls in American Politics Thomas E. Mann and Gary R. Orren, eds. (Washington, DC. The Brookings Institution, 1992) 172pp, The publication of Media and Polls in American Politics is timely. Over the last dozen years the American...

Tales of Terror: Television News and the Construction of the Terrorist Threat.
June 22, 1993... Bethami A. Dobkin. (New York. Praeger Publishers, 1992) 144pp. In the months since the bombing of the World Trade Center, U.S. news coverage of terrorism has undergone a dramatic change. No longer do the media focus on terrorist states --...

The Media and the Gulf War: The Press and Democracy in Wartime.
June 22, 1993... During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the news media -- a pillar of the American democratic system -- were constrained by government censorship and exclusionary tactics. These events created exceptional tensions between the two institutions and...

The Reporter Who Would Be King: A Biography of Richard Harding Davis.
June 22, 1993... Arthur Lubow New York: Scribners, 1992 438 pp. In 1911, Richard Harding Davis, the most celebrated American journalist of his day, wrote an article entitled, "The Passing of the War Correspondent," which looked back on his career. In it he...

Live from Baghdad: Gathering News at Ground Zero.
June 22, 1993... Robert Wiener New York: Doubleday, 1992 303 pp. In 1911, Richard Harding Davis, the most celebrated American journalist of his day, wrote an article entitled, "The Passing of the War Correspondent," which looked back on his career. In it he...