Global television news and foreign policy: Debating the CNN effect

International Studies Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 325-341

  Gilboa, Eytan ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

CNN; Diplomacy; Foreign policy making; Global communication; Humanitarian military intervention; Media effects; Television news

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FOREIGN POLICY; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; TELEVISION;

EID: 22444439574     PISSN: 15283577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3577.2005.00211.x     Document Type: Review

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