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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"the U.S. media"”.
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Reporting Laos: The U.S. Media and the "Secret" War in Laos: 1955-1975
From 1955-1975 the United States Government was involved in covert paramilitary efforts in Laos. Congress did not approve the Laos conflict, which pitted tens of thousands of American-hired ethnic mercenaries against the North Vietnamese army and featured a massive bombing campaign by U. S. …
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Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972
… dissertation aims to find out what role(s) the media in the United States and China played in their historic rapprochement from 1963 to 1972. In order to examine how they covered the major events that affected Sino-American relations, I select seven elite U.S. media and two Chinese official …
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Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945--1949
… research, this study historicizes current media policies and reform efforts by analyzing the 1940s postwar critical juncture when policymakers, social movements, and communication industries grappled over the role of a commercial press in a democratic society. By focusing on policy …
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Beautification Practices Among Asian And Asian American College Students
The global beauty industry is prominent both in western and non-western nations. East Asian countries like Japan, Korea, and China are the biggest markets. Although each of these countries has local beauty standards, the global beauty industry imposes western beauty standards on individuals in …
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Stop Talking about Sorrow: Nixon’s Communications Strategy after Lam Son 719
… 1971 was tough for President Richard Nixon. The American people were tired of the Vietnam War, with many still recovering from the violent anti-war protests of 1970. Congress had just passed an amendment prohibiting U.S. ground troops from operating outside of the borders of South Vietnam. …
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Are American News Magazines Setting the Agenda for Japan Bashing? A Content Analysis of Coverage of Japanese Economic Activities: 1981-1990
According to the longitudinal survey results annually conducted by the Japanese Foreign Ministry, American attitudes toward Japan as a dependable ally began deteriorating in the middle of the 1980s. In the same decade, the Japanese economy received heavy coverage from the U.S. media. Manheim …
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Patterns in the Chaos: News and Nationalism in Afghanistan, America and Pakistan During Wartime, 2010-2012
This dissertation examines the United States's elite news media's hegemony in a global media landscape, and how it can come to stand for the entire American nation in the imagination of outsiders. In this transnational, instantaneous digital media arena, what is created for an American audience can …
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Crisis of consumerism: advertising, activism, and the battle over the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 1969—1980
This dissertation chronicles battles over the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s regulatory powers, which took place from 1969 through 1980. Following a scathing report by consumer activist Ralph Nader, Nixon revitalized what had come to be known as “the little old lady of Pennsylvania Avenue,” and …
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THE MEDIA IS A FUNHOUSE MIRROR: COMPARING ECONOMIC INTERACTION ISSUES IN THE U.S. AND CHINESE MEDIA
<h1>ABSTRACT</h1> <p>This project studied the differences between mainstream news reporting in the U.S. and China. I employed content analysis to analyze the major features of 427 news reports about the economic interaction between the two countries. The research focused on the key media frames in …