"How did the Trump administration capture one of the world’s most important public service news networks? This book uses rare interviews and an analysis of private correspondence and internal documents to explain why and how Voice of America (VOA) became intensely politicized from 2020 to 2021. It
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analyzes how political appointees, White House officials, and right-wing media influenced VOA—changing its reporting of the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidential election, and its contested aftermath. Trump allies took control of the network’s financial and human resources, dominated its governance structures, and instigated intimidating investigations into journalistic bias. Some journalists tried to resist, but others were too exhausted and fearful, particularly those in the organization’s language services. The book puts these events in historical and international context—and develops a new analytical framework for understanding government capture and its connection to broader processes of democratic backsliding. It argues that there is currently too little to prevent a future US administration with authoritarian tendencies from capturing VOA and converting it into a major domestic news organization. For this reason, it uses empirical research to recommend practical ways of protecting the network and other international public service media better in future." (Publisher description)
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"This article examines global representation of the primary continental imperialisms reshaping contemporary Africa: the parallel expansionist exercises of China (centering on commercial expansion) and of the United States (centering on military expansion). Our analysis assesses the current state of
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these continent-wide involvements and sets out the background of how US-African and Sino-African relationships have been portrayed by news media. We then analyze how both Chinese and US expansions in Africa are represented by three prominent global media organizations online: Al Jazeera English, BBC and CNN. This research concludes that global media report modern imperialism in Africa mostly in ways that support the imperial project rather than mobilize resistance toward it." (Abstract)
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"Analysis of the content of the Chinese weekly newspaper "Peking Review", published in English — This analysis shows that this weekly always attacks the United States in the same terms, constantly using the theme of imperialism — The paper has followed the same line since it was founded: mispres
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entation of the facts, the use of half-truths, wrong interpretations, remarks out of context." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1664, topic code 110.5)
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"Analysis of the contents of the daily press of Latin America — The press in the various capitals — The articles on the United States generally concern the government and the economy — According to this analysis the image of the United States which is presented is that of a country which tends
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to ignore Latin America and is uninformed about these countries." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2489, topic code 110.5)
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"The first aim of this article is to study the interdependence between the basic themes of the propaganda put out by the "People's Daily" (Communist China) at national level (within the country itself) and at international level (outside the country) — It next attempts to determine the functional
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nature of this propaganda (studied by the author from the viewpoint of anti- Americanism) — The "People's Daily", an organ of the Communist Party, gives a valuable indication of the policies of the Peking régime and its view of the world — The need for such propaganda is explained by the fact that it contributes greatly to the development of the actual ideology — Within the country it is an instrument of social control, outside the country it encourages the development of a far-reaching strategy which would finally guarantee an ideological "leadership" of both the communist bloc and the nationalist countries of the revolutionary camp." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 723, topic code 110.5)
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