Title: Headline Diplomacy
Description: Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy. Seib's text analyzes important examples of press influence on foreign affairs: the news media's definition of success and failure, as in reporting the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam; how public impatience, fueled by news reports, can pressure presidents, as happened during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-81; how presidents can anticipate and control news media coverage, as was done by the Bush administration during the 1991 Gulf War; how press revelation or suppression of secret information affects policy, as in the cases of the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and various intelligence operations; how coverage of humanitarian crises affects public opinion; the challenges of live TV coverage; and the changing influence of news in the post-Cold War world. By covering a wide range of issues and examples, this important text will stimulate thoughtful appraisal of the relationships between the news media and those who make policy.
Subjects: Press and politics, Relations extérieures, Diplomacy, Foreign news, Massenmedien, Einflussnahme, Journalistiek, Presse et politique, Information internationale, Buitenlandse politiek, Diplomatic relations, Auslandsberichterstattung, Außenpolitik, Foreign relations, United states, foreign relations, 1945-1989, United states, foreign relations, 1989-