The social construction of international news: we're talking about them, they're talking about us

Abstract

Introduction What Our News Media Say We're Talking about Us: The Social Construction of the United States by America's News Media We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Wars between Other Nations We're Talking about Them: U.S. News Media Construction of Other Nation's Internal Wars and Assassinations What Their News Media Say: Four Case Studies The U.S. as a Former Enemy: Russian National Television Construction of the U.S. After the Collapse of the Soviet Union The U.S. as a World Military Power: An Indonesian Newspaper's View of the U.S. in the Persian Gulf Crisis The U.S. as a World Economic Power: Radio Japan's View of the U.S. in International Trade Disputes The U.S. as a Friend-at-a-Distance: Views of the 1996 Presidential Nominating Conventions and the Presidential Inauguration on British, Canadian, and French Television Implication Reassessing Our News Media and Reassessing Our Understanding of Others and of Ourselves References Author Index Subject Index