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Speechwriting, Speechmaking, and the Press: The Kennedy Administration and the Bay of Pigs
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)This paper is about the construction of presidential leadership through public rhetoric; about the authorship of that rhetoric; and about the mediation of that rhetoric through the press. As our master example, we take the ... -
The Spokesperson—In the Crossfire: A Decade of Israeli Defense Crises from an Official Spokesperson’s Perspective
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998)In “The Spokesperson—In the Crossfire,” Nachman Shai builds a strong case for the proposition that “truth” rather than “spin” is the basis of effective public information efforts, even in that most trying of situations—a ... -
Spreading the Word: The KGB's Image-Building Under Gorbachev
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1997-02)It is this story that Jeff Trimble, assistant managing editor of U.S. News & World Report, tells so well in this paper. Trimble lived and worked in Russia during much of this time of essentially bloodless transformation. ... -
State into Public: The Failed Reform of State TV in East Central Europe
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)The exceptional history of Eastern Europe in the past ten years lead to the concentration in a small period of time of a history that would have normally taken many years. The fate of public television is illustrative in ... -
Stories of Climate Change: Competing Narratives, the Media, and U.S. Public Opinion 2001-2010
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2012-02)A decade that began with optimism for those advocating action to combat climate change ended in 2010 with dashed hopes. Momentum slowly grew in the first half of the decade. By 2007 there was a strong consensus among ... -
Strategic Public Relations, Sweatshops, and the Making of a Global Movement
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)This paper has two objectives. First, it tracks the role of these public relations professionals in the shaping and defining of the sweatshop awareness movement, and second, it examines the campaign against Nike as a window ... -
A Symbiotic Relationship Between Journalists and Bloggers
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2008)On March 22, 2007, John Edwards’ presidential campaign announced that the candidate and his wife would hold an important press conference that afternoon. Shortly before the press conference, CNN, Fox News, and other cable ... -
Talking Politics on the Net
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1998-08)The aim of this paper is to examine the concept of public sphere within computer mediated communication. The particular focus is on communication produced by citizens who take part in news groups of a political nature. ... -
Talking Tough: Gender and Reported Speech in Campaign News Coverage
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)Reported speech represents an important means of analyzing how party leaders’ messages are mediated by the masculine norms of political reporting. Building on the notion of “gendered mediation”, we argue that conventional ... -
Tensions of a Free Press: South Africa After Apartheid
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1999-06)A vigorous debate has developed over what should be the role of journalists within the new post-apartheid political context. Questions are raised about the media and the “national interest” as well as the impact of racial ... -
They Wanted Journalists to Say ‘Wow’: How NGOs Affect U.S. Media Coverage of Africa
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2011-01)And now for some good news out of Africa. Since 1995, the rate of poverty throughout the continent has been falling steadily, and much faster than previously thought, according to a study released in February 2010 by the ... -
Through the Revolving Door: Blurring the Line Between the Press and Government
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1991-06)The study finds growing apprehension among some press corps members that hard-won advances in reporting and press independence can be eroded by line-crossing and other flirtations with the establishment. Jim Lehrer of the ... -
Transmitting Race: The Los Angeles Riot in Television News
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994-05)The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, popularly known as the Kerner Commission, was appointed by the late President Lyndon Baines Johnson to find out what caused a series of urban riots in the summer of 1967 ... -
Tritium and the Times: How the Nuclear Weapons-Production Scandal Became a National Story
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1990-05)For more than a decade, pieces of a nationwide scandal had surfaced from the vast and sprawling system that produces America's nuclear weapons; as health, safety, and environmental stories at the 17 facilities in 12 states. ... -
Turmoil at Tiananmen: A Study Of U.S. Press Coverage of the Beijing Spring of 1989
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992-06)The Americans who covered the Beijing spring of 1989 reported a great story. They functioned not as historians, or as the pamphleteers of any political movement, but rather as professional journalists. They covered the ... -
TV Violence, Children, and the Press: Eight Rationales Inhibiting Public Policy Debates
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1994-04)Into this problem comes Sissela Bok, applying the talents of the professional philosopher and the insights of the social critic to analyze current public policy debates in the press about television {itself a branch of the ... -
Two Commanders in Chief: Free Expression's Most Severe Tests
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 1992)War puts the constitutional guarantee of free expression to its most severe test. For a president, war heightens immeasurably the classic First Amendment conflict between confidentiality and openness in a democracy. War ... -
U.S. Government Secrecy and the Current Crackdown on Leaks
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2003)In the never-ending sparring match between the government and the news media, no subject produces more friction than the practice of leaking classified information. Government officials—at least those who don’t leak—denounce ... -
Up Against a Saint and a Dead Man
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2009-06)I scrambled to answer my cell phone as I pulled out of the rental car space at the Los Angeles airport. “Jim, this is Leo Wolinsky. You need to make your first command decision. How do you want your name on the masthead?” I ... -
A Voyage Never Ended
(Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, 2000)I am an African journalist, born in Burundi 32 years ago. I grew up there, in Bujumbura, the nation's capital, where I also went to university to learn my profession. Located in Central Africa's Great Lakes region, Burundi ...