The World News Prism: Changing Media of International Communications

by Hachten, William A.; Hachten, Harva

• ISBN13: 9780813823195
• ISBN10: 0813823196
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

This new edition discusses the ways that global news media report urgent overseas news events such as economic chaos and decline in Southeast Asia, civil wars in Africa, and continued political instability in Russia as well as Kosovo and Bosnia.

Hachten discusses how international communication has had a direct effect on world events. Whether discussing the current Japanese economy or the westernization of Eastern media, the author covers these events in-depth and examines how they have affected our new global media exchange.

Extensive information on the Internet and global television also is found in this edition. This book will stimulate poignant and heated debate for students of mass media, international relations, and political science.

Author Biography

William A. Hachten is professor emeritus of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A specialist in international communications and press/government relations, he is the author of six books and numerous articles. Hachten has traveled widely in Africa and is an authority on the media systems of that continent. His wife, Harva Hachten, a journalist and author, has collaborated in each edition of The World News Prism.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	xi
News Communication for an Interdependent World	3	(12)
Changing Ideologies: Five Press Concepts	15	(22)
International News System	37	(16)
Comsats, Internet, and New Media	53	(18)
Global Impact of Western News and Pop Culture	71	(20)
Internationalizing the World's Media	91	(18)
Public Diplomacy and Propaganda	109	(16)
Changes in Foreign Coverage	125	(18)
Reporting Today's Wars	143	(18)
Muted Debate Over News Flow	161	(18)
Western Media to World Media	179	(14)
Notes	193	(12)
Selected Bibliography	205	(4)
Index	209