Desert Storm and the mass media / editors, Bradley S. Greenberg, Walter Gantz. - xiv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The Hampton Press communication series . - Hampton Press communication series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-435) and index.

About the Authors -- Introduction -- Sobering Thoughts on Sound Bites Seen 'Round the World -- Public Relations as a Weapon of Modern Warfare -- The Crisis in the Gulf and the Lack of Critical Media Discourse -- The Routinization of News Production -- We're Talking War: Symbols, Strategies and Images -- Toward a Propaganda Analysis of the Gulf War -- Telling the Gulf War Story: Coverage in Five Papers -- Differences Between CNN and the Broadcast Networks in Live War Coverage -- Agenda Setting During the Persian Gulf Crisis -- Media Coverage and U.S. Public Opinion on the Persian Gulf -- How the U.S. Found Out About the War -- How We Thought About the Gulf War -- Patterns of Diffusion and Information-Seeking -- Desert Storm and the Tundra Telegraph: Information Diffusion in a Media-Poor Environment -- Public Perceptions and Evaluations of the Functions of the Media in the Persian Gulf War -- Audience Evaluations of U.S. News Media Performance in the Gulf War -- Selective Exposure to TV War News Sources During the Gulf War -- The Public's Reaction to a Mediated War -- Attitudes Toward the Gulf War and News Criticalness -- Attitudes Toward Advertising One Day and One Week After the Gulf War Began -- The Gulf Crisis and Television: The Public's Response in Britain -- Priming the Audience: Australian Response to the Gulf War -- Between Reality and News: Differential Perception of the War in the Gulf -- Parents' and Children's Emotional Reactions to TV Coverage of the Gulf War -- Parent and Child Emotional Involvement in the Netherlands -- Anxiety, War and Children: The Role of Television -- Children's Affective Responses to News Coverage of the War -- British Children's Knowledge of, Emotional Reaction to, and Ways of Making Sense of the War -- Summary and Commentary -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.

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Persian Gulf War, 1991--Journalists
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Mass media and the war
Persian Gulf War, 1991--Press coverage

DS79.739 / .D47 1993

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