Product Description: American Journalism and International Relations argues that the American press' disengagement from world affairs has critical repercussions for American foreign policy. Giovanna Dell'Orto shows that discourses created, circulated, and maintained through the media mold opinions about the world and shape foreign policy parameters...read more

Product Description: Do Journalists Embrace Hated Ideas? One of the most cherished principles in American journalism is the notion that unpopular and even hated ideas deserve First Amendment protection and fair-handed treatment from journalists. But has this principle always existed, and how are hated ideas treated during times of crisis, such as war? In this book, media historians Hazel Dicken-Garcia and Giovanna Dell Orto find some of the answers by analyzing newspaper coverage of hated ideas such as abolitionism to some and slavery to others during the American Civil War...read more