Watchdog or lapdog? media and the US government

"This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategi...

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1. Verfasser: Qian, Nancy (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Yanagizawa, David (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. 2010
Schriftenreihe:NBER working paper series 15738
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Vereinte Nationen > 1945-1989 > Internationale Beziehungen > Politisches System > Militärbündnis > IKT-Politik > Politische Kommunikation > Politisches Ziel > Völkerrechtsverbrechen > Zeitgeschichte > Welt > Arbeitspapier > Graue Literatur
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Zusammenfassung:"This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic allies; and 2) these objectives reduce news coverage of human rights abuses for strategic allies in six U.S. national newspapers. To establish causality, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in a country's strategic value to the U.S. from the interaction of its political alliance to the U.S. and membership on the United Nations Security Council. In addition to the main results, we are able to provide qualitative evidence and indirect quantitative evidence to shed light on the mechanisms underlying the reduced form effects"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
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