Foreign News in Four U.S. Elite Dailies: Some Comparisons

Semmel, Andrew K.

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“…A major dimension of meaningfulness is 'relevance' which Galtung and Ruge define as the degree to which an event in one country is 'loaded with meaning in terms of what it may imply for the reader or listener' in another country (p. 67). An analysis of the types of foreign news in four American elite dailies (Semmel, 1976) confirmed the strong correlation between the meaningfulness factor and newsworthiness. In that study, the author argued that all news originating in foreign countries is either about internal or inter-nation events.…”

Section: The Rand Daily Iviail As Opposition Pressmentioning

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South African press coverage of a frontline African State

Mohamed

1988

Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands)

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In March 1984, an unprecedented peace treaty in southern Africa was signed by the governments of Mozambique and the Republic of South Africa. The treaty held an obvious promise for peace and economic stability in the region, particularly for the signatories.This study was undertaken to decipher what changes the Nkomati Peace Treaty may have brought to the relationships of the signatories through the eyes of the press. The prestigious Rand Daily Mail was content analyzed. All issues that were published during the twelve-month period preceding the treaty and the twelve-month period following the treaty were included in the study.Comparisons of the direction of coverage (favorable, neutral, unfavorable, towards Mozambique), frequency of coverage, and prominence of the coverage of Mozambique in the Mail were done. The results showed a significantly less favorable treatment of Mozambique following the treaty; a considerable increase in coverage; and a significant decrease in the prominence of Mozambican stories.

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South African press coverage of a frontline African State

Mohamed

1988

Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands)

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“…The analysis of crisis/non-crisis orientation of the news stories about the countries supported the idea that international news coverage by the United States media is often crisis-oriented (Adams, 1964;Almaney, 1970, Gozenbach et al, 1992Hurrat, 1988;Lent, 1977;Meyer, 1996;Pasadeos, 1982;Potter, 1987;Semmel, 1976). News stories about both countries were dominated by crisis-oriented stories.…”

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“…The thematic news frame, in contrast, places public issues in some general or abstract context' (Iyengar & Simon, 1993: 369). Since developed countries are more likely to be treated as important while developing countries are underrepresented in news coverage (Almaney, 1970;Gozenbach et al, 1992;Hester, 1978;Hurrat, 1988;Lent, 1977;Potter, 1987;Semmel, 1976;Weaver & Wilhoit, 1981;Wilhoit & Weaver, 1983), it was hypothesized that Japanese coverage would show a higher proportion with thematic frames than Korean coverage. The assumption was that • 2.…”

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“…From the voluminous research (Adams, 1964;Almaney 1970;Charles etal., 1979;Daniels, 1995;ElSarayrah, 1987;Giffard, 1984;Gonzenbach et al, 1992;Haile, 1987;Hester, 1978;Hurrat, 1988;Langton, 1989;Larson, 1979;Lent 1977;Lent & Rao, 1979;McCracken, 1987;Meyer 1996;Mishra, 1979;Morales, 1984;Pasadeos 1982;Pittatore, 1983;Potter, 1987;Pratt, 1980;Ramaparasad & Riffe, 1987;Riffe & Shaw, 1982;Semmel, 1976;Weaver & Wilhoit, 1981;Wilhoit & Weaver, 1983) about the foreign news coverage by American mass media, it might be assumed that the two countries would be described and treated differently because the two countries are different in politicoeconomic status-one is a developed country and the other is still a developing country. 1 In fact, many of these studies (Charles et al, 1979;Daniels, 1995;ElSarayrah, 1987;Giffard, 1984;Haile, 1987;Langton, 1989;Larson, 1979;Lent & Rao, 1979;Mishra, 1979;Morales, 1984;Pratt, 1980;Ramaparasad & Riffe, 1987;Riffe & Shaw, 1982;Weaver ...…”

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How US television networks cover Korea and Japan: Contrasts in the coverage

Park

2002

Asian Journal of Communication

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“…The studies also proceeded from different theoretical bases and used different operational definitions of key concepts [2,5,15,16,24,26,29,30,31,34,35,36,53,55,63,64,66,67,68,70,73,75,77,80,83,84,86,88,89,90,91,92,93,97,99] .…”

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Foreign news coverage and international news flow over three centuries

Wilke

1987

Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands)

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No subject in communication research in recent years has stimulated greater interest on a world-wide level than questions of foreign news reporting and international news flow. This is a result not only of scientific interest but even more of the growing debate on communication policies as they relate to the so-called 'free flow of information' doctrine and the 'new world information order.'The origins of this discussion go back further, of course. When the countries of the world drew together after World War II, it was clear that international communication relationships between states were an important part of international politics [94] . This . was the impetus for programs to promote development of communications systems, mostly under the doctrine of a 'free flow of information' throughout the world. The issue became controversial in the 1970s when Third World countries began to lay claim to greater influence on international communication. In March, 1976, at a symposium of the non-aligned countries in Tunis, a call was made for the first time for a 'new World information order,' analogous to an earlier demand for a new world economic order. Thus international communication became entangled in the tensions of the North-South conflict. Countries of the Third World above all criticized the foreign news coverage of the powerful Western mass media for alleged imbalance in quantity and distortions in quality as well as the dominant Western news agencies for failing to supply them with information they needed for rapid development. Moreover, disputes between

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Foreign News in Four U.S. Elite Dailies: Some Comparisons

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