"This book takes a unique and comprehensive look at how the international community, led by the US, responded to ten humanitarian crises of the last decade and how major media outlets played a role in influencing (or failing to influence) action. Crises examined include Liberia, East Timor, Somalia,
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Sudan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Angola, Haiti, and the Congo. Soderlund and Briggs apply the same analytic method to each case to discover why the international community was unwilling, time and time again, to address this new brand of conflict that appeared at the time." (Publisher description)
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"Report of 14 papers presented at the proceedings of the Ontario Cooperative Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, organized under four thematic sections: the New World Information Order and the MacBride Report; media performance in Latin America and the Caribbean; media coverage of Latin
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America and the Caribbean in the American press; and a special section focusing on various aspects of the American military invasion of Grenada. Ideological points of view vary throughout the papers. References follow each." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 412)
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