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Palmerton, Patricia R. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1988
Examines television news coverage of the first days of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. Discovers patterns that reinforce terrorist strategy by focusing causation for the crisis on institutional targets and suggesting that military intervention would reestablish control. Suggests that media portrayals of terrorist events support the rhetorical…
Descriptors: Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, News Media, News Reporting
Watson, Mary Ann – 1986
This critique of "A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy," a television program produced by CBS following completion of the White House restoration project to show the changes made, begins by discussing the relationships of the President and Mrs. Kennedy with the media, and the First Lady's involvement in the restoration…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Modern History, News Media, Presidents of the United States