The Media and the Persian Gulf War /

The relationship between the media and the Persian Gulf War, the first prime-time and real-time war, is analyzed from a variety of perspectives in this useful volume in "Praeger's Series in Political Communication." Some of the more interesting articles deal with new media such as talk radio in the US, a comparison of the way ABC and CNN covered the war, and the impact of C-Span on viewers. The authors move beyond the US to consider the manner in which television newscasts in seven different countries dealt with the war as well as differences in approaches to the concept of "world opinion" as seen in The New York Times and the Times of India. Other articles deal with such disparate subjects as Hollywood's images of Arabs, media images of women in the Gulf War, and the relationship between authoritarian personalities and support for the war. As in most collections, not all articles will interest everyone, but there is much here that is new and thought provoking. Graduate; faculty. M. Small; Wayne State University