Insurgent Violence Versus Image Management: The Struggle for National Images in Southern Africa

Jarol B. Manheim and Robert B. Albritton

British Journal of Political Science, 1987, vol. 17, issue 2, 201-218

Abstract: The authors examine the countervailing effects of two forces on external news coverage of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa during the 1970s. The first is purposeful government efforts at news management and information control undertaken by each of the two regimes. The second is the civil unrest which was present in the region during that period. They conclude that these effects and the policy consequences that flow from them are functions of the pre-existing image environment of each country in the foreign (US) press and of the character of its domestic unrest.

Date: 1987
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