The Social Construction of International News
Subtitle: We're Talking About Them They're Talking About Us (Praeger Series in Political Communication)
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780313015588
Subjects: Politics/International Relations
First sentence: In May, 1998, The Cincinnati Enquirer published an eighteen-page special section alleging, among other things, that Chiquita Brands International, a powerful transnational corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, sprayed Costa Rican workers with dangerous pesticides, that it set up land trusts to disguise its ownership of various plantations to circumvent Honduran law, and that its executives bribed Colombian officials.