News and Dissent: The Press and the Politics of Peace in Canada

This volume centers on a critical examination of press coverage of peace-related issues and of the relationships between newspaper journalism and the peace movement in Canada in the 1980s. The chapters deal respectively with the following topics: the relevance and impact of news media in relation to both international peace, and the emergence and success of antiwar movements; a critical review of previous research on the relation between media and antiwar movements; an extensive explanation of the nature of news; an overview of Canada's news media system; the political/discursive context of news concerning peace and defense; several case studies of relevant press coverage; a discussion of how open the news is to the expression of antiwar sentiment; and an epilogue considering whether the "end of the Cold War" has fundamentally changed the nature of North American media coverage of war and peace issues.Robert A. Hackett is the author of 'News and Dissent: The Press and the Politics of Peace in Canada', published 1991 under ISBN 9780893918156 and ISBN 0893918156.