American journalism and international relations : foreign correspondence from the early republic to the digital era / Giovanna Dell'Orto, University of Minnesota.

Dell'Orto, Giovanna, 1977-

Call Number	070.4/3320973
Author	Dell'Orto, Giovanna, 1977- author.
Title	American journalism and international relations : foreign correspondence from the early republic to the digital era / Giovanna Dell'Orto, University of Minnesota. American Journalism & International Relations
Physical Description	1 online resource (viii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	1. Introduction: the American press and international relations -- 2. A new country, a new profession: America and its foreign correspondents get ready to take on the world -- 3. America takes global center stage: the ascent of a political and communication power -- 4. The media are American in the American century: the apex of American political and communication power -- 5. A web of disentanglements: American policy and media struggle to engage the post-Cold War world -- 6. The importance of being there and making people care: the troubled present and possible futures of U.S. foreign correspondence -- 7. Conclusion: reaffirming journalism's role in world affairs.
Summary	American Journalism and International Relations argues that the American press' disengagement from world affairs has critical repercussions for American foreign policy. Giovanna Dell'Orto shows that discourses created, circulated and maintained through the media mold opinions about the world and shape foreign policy parameters. This book is a history of US foreign correspondence from the 1840s to the present. Americans' perceptions of other nations, combined with pervasive and enduring understandings of the United States' role in global politics, act as constraints on policies. Dell'Orto finds that reductive media discourse (as seen during the 1967 War in the Middle East or Afghanistan in the 1980s) has a negative effect on policy, whereas correspondence grounded in events (such as during the Japanese attack on Shanghai in the 1930s or the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991) fosters effective leadership and realistic assessments.
Subject	Foreign news United States History. Journalism Political aspects United States. Press and politics United States History. Foreign correspondents United States History.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139410939

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Summary	American Journalism and International Relations argues that the American press' disengagement from world affairs has critical repercussions for American foreign policy. Giovanna Dell'Orto shows that discourses created, circulated and maintained through the media mold opinions about the world and shape foreign policy parameters. This book is a history of US foreign correspondence from the 1840s to the present. Americans' perceptions of other nations, combined with pervasive and enduring understandings of the United States' role in global politics, act as constraints on policies. Dell'Orto finds that reductive media discourse (as seen during the 1967 War in the Middle East or Afghanistan in the 1980s) has a negative effect on policy, whereas correspondence grounded in events (such as during the Japanese attack on Shanghai in the 1930s or the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991) fosters effective leadership and realistic assessments.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	1. Introduction: the American press and international relations -- 2. A new country, a new profession: America and its foreign correspondents get ready to take on the world -- 3. America takes global center stage: the ascent of a political and communication power -- 4. The media are American in the American century: the apex of American political and communication power -- 5. A web of disentanglements: American policy and media struggle to engage the post-Cold War world -- 6. The importance of being there and making people care: the troubled present and possible futures of U.S. foreign correspondence -- 7. Conclusion: reaffirming journalism's role in world affairs.
Subject	Foreign news United States History. Journalism Political aspects United States. Press and politics United States History. Foreign correspondents United States History.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139410939