American Media and Foreign Policy

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This paper demonstrates through newspaper articles and television coverage that foreign policy has taken on a different aura in the past decade and whose future progression seems anything but predictable. This is apparent in an examination of current news articles and television coverage, and shows that foreign policy is covered in an entirely new light compared to recent decades.

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"Domestic and foreign coverage by the media was strikingly similar during the years leading up to the beginning of the 21st century, with the media basically acting as a propaganda model for the government. However, with the rapid technology boom taking place in the past decade, the media has started to take on a much more proactive role in regards to foreign policy. As articulated by Mark Rozell in Media Power, Media Politics, "the speed, reach and intensity of media coverage of foreign policy are relatively new" (Rozell 235). Technology has advanced at a lightning pace, compared to the fact that the television was just invented in 1926. As the years progressed, technology kept providing new inventions that made it easier and quicker to transfer data over increasing distances. From the telegraph to the internet, data transfer soon came to be instantaneous, covering thousands of miles a second, and made easy as a click of a button."

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