External-national TV news networks' way to America: Is the United States losing the global "information war"?

International Journal of Communication

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 66-83

  Xie, Shuang ^a   Boyd Barrett, Oliver ^b  

^a NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Al Jazeera America; CCTV America; Flow and counter flow; Global information war; RT; Soft power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920629141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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