ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Warsaw Pact countries' media coverage of four crises—the October 1973 Arab Israeli War, the 1979 China-Vietnam War, the 1979—1980 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, and the 1980—1981 Polish conflict. These crises represent international, systemic, and domestic crises and are geographically distant from one another. The chapter examines the data for the four cases in two ways. First, Warsaw Pact member states' media coverage of crisis is described. Second cross-crises and cross-national explanations of differential media emphases are offered. The descriptive part of the analysis employs a means and standard deviations, while the explanatory analysis utilizes simple bivariate regression analysis. Bivariate regression was employed to gauge the association between the extent of journalists' integration with the party and the four dimensions of crisis coverage. The chapter examines differences in the relationship between the independent variable and the four dimensions of crisis coverage in each country.
