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Focuses on Canadian Broadcasting's coverage of the Soviet Union, the Reagan-Gorbachev summit talks, the Afghanistan war, South Africa, and the wars in Ethiopia and Mozambique, looking at 250 broadcasts between June 1988 and June 1989. Shows how the gap between common-sense reality and a second reality produced by TV news causes distrust of both, a consequence that is discouraging for the prospects of a responsible democratic government. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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CHOICE Review

A balanced monograph analyzing the biases that shape the CBC national news would be welcome. This is not that book. Cooper (political science, Univ. of Calgary) does not hide his Canadian right-wing perspective throughout this polemic. Much of what he says about the selection of stories and "angles" is already well known. He does not sufficiently acknowledge the limitations of either the medium itself or the production process. He concludes that television news is entertainment, yet the "sins of omission"--or questions he says should have been raised--require the sort of lengthy, complex analysis possible only in print. Cooper posits a passive and naive viewer. His method is detailed content analysis of three "stories" (the Soviet Union, the Gorbachev-Reagan summit, and Africa) from 250 broadcasts between June '87 and June '88. He "assume[s] that anyone dealing with the same data would come to similar conclusions," but too often his analysis is more selective and adjective-laden than what he describes. The subtext he decodes, using selected verbatim quotes, is not necessarily one that a viewer with an ear for irony and tone, or a memory of other CBC stories on the subject, would find. Overall Cooper weakens his legitimate but unsurprising case--that CBC news displays biases--with abrasive rhetoric and a strong hint of liberal conspiracies within the CBC. Qualified recommendation for upper-division undergraduates and professionals. M. J. Miller; Brock University