Anne
2004-10-13 14:10:36 UTC
For all interested in media war coverage, national interests, and
public opinion formation and manipulation a new book has just been
released. The Bewildered Herd: Media Coverage of International
Conflicts & International Conflicts offers the most comprehensive
analysis and revelations of media motives, tactics, and mechanisms
shaping public opinion during international conflict coverage
For the first time, The Bewildered Herd contains all that should be
known about the media's orientation of the public mind in democratic
societies, why this manipulation takes place, and in which manner. The
Bewildered Herd does not only analyse the media's current functions,
forms, interests, and tactics in the modern democratic society but it
also traces and discusses the various transformations that this
increasingly powerful social actor has gone through.
The case studies used in The Bewildered Herd are both unequal and
unique in their nature, depth, and revelations. They compare the media
coverage in two of the world's leading democracies (The United States
and France) of some of the world's most important armed conflicts (The
Gulf War, Bosnia, Iraq, Chechnya, The Middle East, Rwanda). It
analyses both countries' national, economic, cultural, and social
interests as well as their respective media's coverage of these
conflicts and reveals how public perceptions are affected by this
coverage, and how the agendas of both the media and the political
establishment are best served by this manipulation of public opinion
in democratic societies.
Mechanisms and tactics used in conditioning the public mind and
orienting its opinion are extensively revealed and analysed in a
manner that is so comprehensive in its approach and in its
explanations.
public opinion formation and manipulation a new book has just been
released. The Bewildered Herd: Media Coverage of International
Conflicts & International Conflicts offers the most comprehensive
analysis and revelations of media motives, tactics, and mechanisms
shaping public opinion during international conflict coverage
For the first time, The Bewildered Herd contains all that should be
known about the media's orientation of the public mind in democratic
societies, why this manipulation takes place, and in which manner. The
Bewildered Herd does not only analyse the media's current functions,
forms, interests, and tactics in the modern democratic society but it
also traces and discusses the various transformations that this
increasingly powerful social actor has gone through.
The case studies used in The Bewildered Herd are both unequal and
unique in their nature, depth, and revelations. They compare the media
coverage in two of the world's leading democracies (The United States
and France) of some of the world's most important armed conflicts (The
Gulf War, Bosnia, Iraq, Chechnya, The Middle East, Rwanda). It
analyses both countries' national, economic, cultural, and social
interests as well as their respective media's coverage of these
conflicts and reveals how public perceptions are affected by this
coverage, and how the agendas of both the media and the political
establishment are best served by this manipulation of public opinion
in democratic societies.
Mechanisms and tactics used in conditioning the public mind and
orienting its opinion are extensively revealed and analysed in a
manner that is so comprehensive in its approach and in its
explanations.