“…Through the policy definitions it frames and the information it brings to light, the media can compromise certain policy approaches promoted by governments (Gilboa, 2005), limit the range of issues that can be successfully defined as problems (Strobel, 1997), undermine the effectiveness of policy solutions (Iyengar and Kinder, 2010), create powerful images of how a government should behave in foreign policy (Wood and Peake, 1998), or more broadly damage the reputation of foreign policy actors, states, or international organizations both domestically and internationally (Mercer, 2008). For example, Kent found that in the case of the war in Bosnia the activity of the British media had an incremental effect on policymaking by creating coverage and forcing minimal intervention from the state, even though British policymakers were largely unwilling to respond directly to the media's discourse (Kent, 2005, p. 222).…”