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Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy. Seib's text analyzes important examples of press influence on foreign affairs: the news media's definition of success and failure, as in reporting the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam; how public impatience, fueled by news reports, can pressure presidents, as happened during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-81; how presidents can anticipate and control news media coverage, as was done by the Bush administration during the 1991 Gulf War; how press revelation or suppression of secret information affects policy, as in the cases of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and various intelligence operations; how coverage of humanitarian crises affects public opinion; the challenges of live TV coverage; and the changing infl

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Preface Prelude: Mr. Hearst's War Defining Failure and Success Pushing the President The President Pushes Back Manipulating the Messenger Does Anyone Care? The World Is Watching: Real-Time News After the Devil Has Been Saved Spheres of Influence Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: ABC-CLIO
      Publication Date: 11/25/1996 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780275953751, 978-0275953751
      ISBN10: 0275953750
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy. Seib's text analyzes important examples of press influence on foreign affairs: the news media's definition of success and failure, as in reporting the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam; how public impatience, fueled by news reports, can pressure presidents, as happened during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-81; how presidents can anticipate and control news media coverage, as was done by the Bush administration during the 1991 Gulf War; how press revelation or suppression of secret information affects policy, as in the cases of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and various intelligence operations; how coverage of humanitarian crises affects public opinion; the challenges of live TV coverage; and the changing infl

      Table of Contents
      Preface Prelude: Mr. Hearst's War Defining Failure and Success Pushing the President The President Pushes Back Manipulating the Messenger Does Anyone Care? The World Is Watching: Real-Time News After the Devil Has Been Saved Spheres of Influence Bibliography Index

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