The World News Prism

William A. Hachten is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taught for 30 years. His publications include: The Troubles of Journalism, Third Edition (2005), The Growth of Media in the Third World (1993), and The Press and Apartheid (with C.A. Giffard, 1984). James F. Scotton is Associate Professor of Journalism at Marquette University, Milwaukee. He has taught in Lebanon, China, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda, and has worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor with the Associated Press and newspapers in several states and in China. Together James Scotton and William Hachten are the authors of New Media for a New China (2010, Wiley-Blackwell).

Preface to the Eighth Edition vii Introduction 1 1 News Communication for a Global System 11 2 Changing Ideologies of Press Control 24 3 Global News Under Stress 45 4 Digital Media: Global, Interactive, and Free 58 5 The Whole World is Watching: Impact of Great News Events 77 6 Globalization of Media and Language 93 7 China: New Media In An Old Political World 111 8 The Middle East: Media Storms in the Desert 135 9 India and Africa: Contrasts in Development 158 10 Foreign News in Flux 170 11 War Reporting: Fire and Misfire 185 12 Public Diplomacy and Propaganda 206 13 Forecast: Changeable with Cloudy Periods 224 Selected Bibliography 241 Index 245