Reporting a Revolution: The Iranian Revolution and the NIICO Debate

By J.V. Vilanilam

The author studies the patterns of selection and presentation of news relating to the Iranian Revolution in the newspapers of India and the USA in the light of the great debate on the New International Information and Communication Order (NIICO). Exposing the medias strong reliance on official sources which perceive events from the perspective of their respective national governments foreign policy makers, this book stresses the need for the media of developed as well as developing countries to re-assert their independence from news managers and information manipulators at the national, international and governmental levels.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803995946
• ISBN13: 9780803995949
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.