ABSTRACT
This chapter reports chiefly on the data from the first survey but with some results from the second survey indicated. The surveys were based on random samples of the local population in Hull and Beverley. Differences in reception of the three media emerged in response to questions in authors' second survey about coverage of the massacre of retreating Iraqi troops at Mutla Ridge. The influence of the media on the attitudes was necessarily a major part of authors' concern. Soviet journalists did not have to follow any party line or change events and opinions to conform to the official version. When Spanish and European journalists protested their exclusion, the response was that their countries were not making a military effort in the war comparable to that of the United States and Britain. In sum, the Gulf War as portrayed on Brazilian television had as little to do with actual events in the Middle East as telenovelas do with Brazilian reality.
