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Media and the Path to Peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 August 2005

Marwan M. Kraidy
Marwan M. Kraidy
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American University
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Media and the Path to Peace. By Gadi Wolfsfeld. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 284p. $70.00 cloth, $26.99 paper.

While the role of the mass media during conflict and war has been the subject of numerous studies in the field of mass communications, there is a paucity of research on mass media during peace processes. Media and the Path to Peace is an important step in remedying this lack. A study such as this confronts an unfortunate reality: The news media are attracted to war and conflict, while peace processes make for paltry news footage and thus are for the most part undercovered by the news media. Indeed, it is Gadi Wolfsfeld's thesis that news values and peace processes are inherently contradictory.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 697 - 698
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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