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Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

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The Violations Will Not Be Televised

Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

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Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK book

The Violations Will Not Be Televised
ByShawna M. Brandle
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 21 December 2015
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315694467
Pages 198
eBook ISBN 9781315694467
Subjects Communication Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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Brandle, S.M. (2015). Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK: The Violations Will Not Be Televised (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315694467

ABSTRACT

Does the CNN Effect exist? Political communications scholars have debated the influence of television news coverage on international affairs since television news began, especially in relation to the coverage of massive human rights violations. These debates have only intensified in the last 20 years, as new technologies have changed the nature of news and the news cycle. But despite frequent assertion, little research into the CNN Effect, or whether television coverage of human rights violations causes state action, exists. Bridging across the disciplines of human right studies, comparative politics, and communication studies in a way that has not been done, this book looks at television news coverage of human rights in the US and UK to answer the question of whether the CNN Effect actually exists.

Examining the human rights content in television news in the US and UK yields insights to what television news producers and policy makers consider to be human rights, and what, if anything, audiences can learn about human rights from watching television news. After reviewing 20 years of footage using three different types of content analyses of American television news broadcasts and two different types of British news broadcasts, and comparing those results with human rights rankings and print news coverage of human rights, Shawns M. Brandle concludes that despite rhetoric from both countries in support of human rights, there is not enough coverage of human rights in either country to argue that television media can spur state action on human rights issues. More simply, the violations will not be televised.

A welcome and timely book presenting an important examination of human rights coverage on television news.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|4 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|31 pages

Human Rights and the Media in the US & UK

chapter 3|24 pages

Content Analysis I: US Phrase Search

chapter 4|20 pages

Content Analysis II: US & UK Transcript Analysis

chapter 5|31 pages

Content Analysis III: Comparing Twenty Years of American and British Television News Coverage

chapter 6|19 pages

Case Studies: China, Somalia, and Sudan

chapter 7|7 pages

Conclusion

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