Negotiating in the public eye

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Do the media have the power to alter the course of U.S. arms control negotiations? Despite abundant television and newspaper coverage of arms control talks during the last decade, the question of the impact of electronic and print press has drawn little scholarly attention. This innovative study, which combines detailed quantitative analysis of newspaper articles and television news stories with extensive interviews of leading journalist and government officials, demonstrates conclusively that the media, as an elite interest group, have the power to influence both the making of policy and the agenda for that policy.

subjects: Defenses,  Influence,  Intermediate-range ballistic missiles,  Mass media,  North Atlantic Treaty Organization,  Nuclear arms control,  Soviet Union,  Soviet Union. 1987 Dec. 8.,  Europe, defenses,  Soviet Union. 1987 December 8.,  Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles

Places: Europe,  Soviet Union,  United States