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Giffard, C. Anthony; Cohen, Lisa – Journalism Quarterly, 1989
Uses a content analysis of U. S. network television coverage of South Africa from January 1982 through May 1987 to determine the impact of varying degrees of censorship on the amount and kind of reporting from South Africa. Finds that press censorship intensified rather than reduced coverage of South Africa. (MM)
Descriptors: Censorship, Commercial Television, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
Giffard, C. Anthony; Cohen, Lisa – 1987
Network television news has often been accused of inciting and prolonging incidents of public violence, whether riots or terrorism, and in South Africa this type of thinking has led to increasingly stringent restrictions on both domestic and foreign media covering the violent unrest there. A study determined a chronology of events and analyzed the…
Descriptors: Censorship, Foreign Countries, Mass Media Effects, Media Research
Whannel, Garry – 1986
The race between Mary Decker and Zola Budd, a head to head confrontation in the 1985 Olympic Games, is examined within the broader context of the transformation taking place in sports as a result of the combined efforts of television and the economic forces of sponsorship. Athletics is going through this process of transformation both economically…
Descriptors: Athletics, Audiences, Blacks, Competition