Television News and U.S. Foreign Policy: Constraints of Real-Time Coverage

Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 97-113

  Gilboa, Eytan ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CNN; Communication strategies; Foreign news coverage; Foreign policy making; Global communication; Media and national security; Media diplomacy; Propaganda and disinformation; Reporting terrorism; Television news

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141480881     PISSN: 1081180X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X03256576     Document Type: Article

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