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In the most comprehensive study of the media and foreign policy, twenty distinguished scholars and analysts explain the role played by the mass media and public opinion in the development of United States foreign policy in the Gulf War.

Tracing the flow of news, public opinion, and policy decisions from Sadam Hussein's rise to power in 1979, to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, through the outbreak and conclusion of the war, the contributors look at how the media have become key players in the foreign policy process. They examine the pre-war media debate, news coverage during and after the war, how the news-gathering process shaped the content of the coverage, and the media's effect on public opinion and decision makers. We see what goes on behind the scenes in the high tech world of political communication, and are confronted by troubling questions about the ways the government managed coverage of the war and captured journalists at their own news game.

Taken by Storm also examines more general patterns in post-Cold war journalism and foreign policy, particularly how contemporary journalistic practices determine whose voices and what views are heard in foreign policy coverage. At stake are the reactions of a vast media audience and the decision of government officials who see both the press and the public and key elements of the policy game.

The first book to fully integrate our understanding of the news business, public opinion, and government action, Taken by Storm transcends the limits of the Gulf War to illuminate the complex relationship between the media, the public, and U.S. foreign policy in the late twentieth century.

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• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to the Media and Foreign Policy
• A View from the Press
• A View from the Military
• A View from the Academy
• 1 The News About Foreign Policy
• 2 The Press as Prologue: Media Coverage of Saddam's Iraq, 1979-1990
• 3 News and Historical Content: The Establishment Phase of the Persian Gulf Policy Debate
• 4 The News before the Storm: The Iraq War Debate and the Limits to Media Independence
• 5 Domesticating a Crisis: Washington Newsbeats and Network News after theIraq Invasion of Kuwait
• 6 Strategic Public Diplomacy: Managing Kuwait's Image During the GulfConflict
• 7 The Gulf War as Popular Culture and Television Drama
• 8 News Coverage of the Gulf Crisis and Public Opinion: A Study ofAgenda-Setting, Priming, and Framing Shanto Iyengar
• 9 Elite Leadership of Mass Opinion: New Evidence from the Gulf War
• 10 Crisis, War, and Public Opinion: The Media and Public Support for thePresident
• 11 A Mutual Exploitation Model of Media Influence in U.S. Foreign Policy
• 12 Strategic Politicians, Public Opinion, and the Gulf Crisis
• 13 Just Deserts
• Appendix: Gulf Conflict Event Guide
• Contributors
• Index

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CHOICE Review

Using the Gulf War as a focus, this thoroughly documented and comprehensive set of essays demonstrates once again that in our time the elite news media function as the propaganda arm of the political elite. Several essays suggest that the elite news agencies poorly served the American electorate by their failure fully to inform the public about the issues, especially before and during the war. Particularly disturbing is Jarol Manheim's account of the way public perception of the issues was structured by the public relations firm hired to polish Kuwait's image. Although he does cite 1950s research, Manheim might have gone back to Edward L. Bernays's Propaganda (1928), which first demonstrated the process of governing by manipulation of public opinion. Manheim's study is reinforced in the final essay of this volume, in which David Paletz asks what would have happened if Iraq rather than Kuwait had hired the public relations firm. Perhaps it is scholarly restraint that leads these writers only to suggest rather than specifically to identify and analyze the systematic mendacity of the Reagan and Bush administrations in the area of foreign policy. This excellent collection is highly recommended to all libraries.