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 | | The U.S. Media and Yugoslavia, 1991-1995 by James J. Sadkovich ISBN-10: 9780275950460 ISBN-10: 0-275-95046-8 ISBN-13: 9780275950460 ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95046-0 Hardcover 1998-03-30 Praeger Publishers Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This book is a unique contribution to both media studies and contemporary politics. It analyzes the American media's structure and its role in shaping perceptions of the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, and looks at the key issues involved, from self-determination to genocide. Sadkovich sees the failure of the U.S. media and the West as having prolonged and even aggravated the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. This work will prove useful to both the general reader and students of media and current affairs. | ||
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A compelling "no holds barred" analysis of the U.S. media. Finally a complete and compelling analysis of the U.S. media and its coverage of the conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Masterfully and methodically, Sadkovich dissects and analyzes all the media personalities, forces, intricacies and often contradictory doctrines that shaped the coverage of the war. Sadkovich not only confronts the "Watergate Syndrome" of the U.S. media head on and explains the "who, what, where, how and why", he exposes the underbelly of the U.S. media and by extension the diplomatic and special interest circles that fueled and manipulated the "image" of the conflict as a civil and ethnic war. Thoroughly researched and referenced, Sadkovich's work not only scrutinizes the conflict through current complex media theories and international legal frames of reference, but convincingly challenges the prevailing notion of "equal guilt amongst warring factions" and responsibility for the conflict. Sadkovich not o! nly sets the stage, explains the players and the plot, but also exposes readers to what went on behind the curtain. His refreshing academic "no holds barred" approach should prove enlightening and educational to both the casual reader and industry professionals who have followed the conflict from the outset. A must read! | ||
Fantastic. A must read!!! Sadkovich takes a deserving critical eye at the role of the U.S. media in the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Here finally is an authour who is outlining the responsibility of the mainstream press during the wars. It is only unfortunate his research does not include British and other foreign journalists. | ||