Government news management, bias and distortion in American press coverage of the Brazilian Coup of 1964
| Autor: | W. Michael Weis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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| Zdroj: | The Social Science Journal. 34:35-55 |
| ISSN: | 1873-5355 0362-3319 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0362-3319(97)90018-5 |
| Popis: | Using content analysis, this article analyzes American newspaper and magazine coverage of the Brazilian Coup of 1964. One of the most decisive events in Brazilian history, the coup instituted a repressive military regime that ruled Brazil for twenty years. The dominant press view, that the coup occurred to thwart an imminent Communist takeover, is at odds with historical scholarship, as well as with contemporary accounts in the alternative and foreign press. Looking at the evidence for bias and distortion in news coverage, the article concludes that this was not merely the result of incompetence, but in United States officials' ability to “manage the news” and make the press complicit in a campaign to hide the substantial United States involvement. The evidence suggests that complaints against government control of news and information in the Gulf War, as well as the issues of biased and distorted reporting, and even the notion of a free press providing necessary information for the electorate is not a recent phenomenon, but the norm in post-1945 American history. |
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