ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains that the policy environment has implications for the media effects on the policy process. The findings of the research conducted to date are based on analysis of policy-making processes in large, powerful and well-established states where the standards of democratic responsiveness and accountability are in place. The press has become the greatest power within the Western countries, more powerful than the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary'. The consequence of the considerable media coverage of wars in recent years has been the concern that the media have increased their ability to affect the foreign policy-making. The book highlights the dilemmas of comparing media across borders. British print media picture is quite diverse and complicated both in terms of political orientation and quality/tabloid distinction.
