Hope and Folly : The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985.
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Hope and Folly : The United States and UNESCO, 1945-1985.
Yazar:
Preston, William.
ISBN:
9780816655809
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (396 pages)
Seri:
Media and Society
İçerik:
CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HISTORY OF U.S.-UNESCO RELATIONS -- I. Introduction: An Overview -- II. The Indictment in Context -- III. Patterns and Problems in the American Past -- IV. The Nazi Challenge and Two World Wars: The Hostile Imagination Unleashed -- V. UNESCO's Origins: Liberal Hopes and Liberal Assumptions -- VI. Politicizing UNESCO in the U.S. and Abroad: Cold War Intrusions, 1946-1960 -- A. Information and Mass Communications -- B. Anticommunism -- C. Culture -- VII. Challenge and Change Confront Cold War Concepts: The 1960s -- VIII. Backlash and Reaction: The Road to Withdrawal, 1968-1981 -- IX. The United States Exits: 1981-1985 -- X. Epilogue: A Post-Mortem Interpretation -- U.S. MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE U.S. WITHDRAWAL FROM UNESCO -- Introduction -- A. Objective Coverage Versus Propaganda -- B. The Record of Earlier Studies of Mass-Media Treatment of UNESCO -- II. An Analysis of U.S. Mass-Media Treatment of the U.S. Withdrawal From UNESCO -- A. Sourcing -- B. Premises, Frames of Reference, and Agendas -- C. Ideological Language and Tone -- D. Rewriting History -- E. Programmatic and Management Deficiencies: Misrepresentations and Suppressions -- F. Misrepresentation of the NWICO Threat to a "Free Press" -- G. The Non-Correctability of Error -- H. Non-Disclosure of Corporate Interest -- III. Summary and Conclusions -- IS THERE A UNITED STATES INFORMATION POLICY? -- I. Introduction -- II. U.S. Dominance in the Early Postwar Period -- III. The Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press: The Cooperative Option -- IV. The Western Doctrines of Free Flow and Free Press -- V. Hey-Day of Free Flow and the Emergence of the New Nations -- VI. The Call for a New International Information Order -- VII. The Western Counter-Attack against the NIIO -- VIII. The Technology Gambit -- IX. The United States Attack on UNESCO.
X. U.S. Information Policy in the 1980s: The Reagan Era -- XI. Conclusion -- APPENDIXES -- I. Constitution of UNESCO -- II. The Directors-General of UNESCO -- III. Anatomy of a Smear: Ed Bradley and "60 Minutes" on UNESCO -- IV. Speech of E. Gough Whitlam, April 13, 1985 -- V. Interviews Conducted -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Özet:
Hope and Folly was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Created in a burst of idealism after World War II, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) existed for forty years in a state of troubled yet often successful collaboration with one of its founders and benefactors, the United States. In 1980, UNESCO adopted the report of a commission that surveyed and criticized the dominance, in world media, of the United States, Japan, and a handful of European countries. The report also provided the conceptual underpinnings for what was later called the New World Information and Communication Order, a general direction adopted by UNESCO to encourage increased Third World participation in world media. This direction - it never became an official program - ultimately led to the United States's withdrawal from UNESCO in 1984. Hope and Folly is an interpretive chronicle of U.S./ UNESCO relations. Although the information debated has garnered wide attention in Europe and the Third World, there is no comparable study in the English language, and none that focuses specifically on the United States and the broad historical context of the debate. In the first three parts, William Preston covers the changing U.S./ UNESCO relationship from the early cold war years through the period of anti-UNESCO backlash, as well as the politics of the withdrawal. Edward Herman's section is an interpretive critique of American media coverage of the withdrawal, and Herbert Schiller's is a conceptual analysis of conflicts within the United States's information policies during its last years in UNESCO. The book's appendices include an analysis of Ed Bradley's notorious
"60 Minutes" broadcast on UNESCO.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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