Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet UnionEbsco Publishing, 1992 - 299 Seiten Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In 1960, only five percent of the population had access to TV, but now the viewing population has reached near total saturation. Today's main source of information in the USSR, television has becomeMikhail Gorbachev's most powerful instrument for paving the way for major reform. Containing a wealth of interviews with major Soviet and American media figures and fascinating descriptions of Soviet TV shows, Ellen Mickiewicz's wide-ranging, vividly written volume compares over one hundred hours of Soviet and A. |
Inhalt
How Much Time for Talking | 120 |
The Use of Loaded Words | 130 |
Who Is Covered on the News? | 142 |
The Context of the Soviet News | 150 |
A Selection of NonNews Programs | 164 |
Television and the Formation of Public | 179 |
Gauging Media Effects | 201 |
The Mixed Impact of Television | 207 |
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The Geography of News | 97 |
The Content of News | 104 |
The Linkage of Subject and Country | 112 |
Assimilating Messages | 217 |
Living with Contradictions | 224 |
Index | 265 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 233 - Robert G. Kaiser, Russia: The People and the Power (New York: Pocket Books, 1976), p.
Seite 98 - States and its allies are far more central to the Soviet news than is the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact Allies to the American news. [The study shows] the centrality of America and the strong interest in the countries of Western Europe.... Even those Western European countries not in NATO are of greater interest to the Soviet Union than they are to the United States. The regions of the Monroe Doctrine are also greater claimants of attention in the Soviet news, which devotes a larger share of its...
Seite 239 - Edward Jay Epstein, News from Nowhere (New York: Random House, 1973); Herbert Cans, Deciding What's News (New York: Vintage, 1979); Timothy Grouse, The Boys on the Bus (New York: Free Press, 1978); Robert Darnton, "Writing News and Telling Stories...
Seite 176 - rehabilitated" but not returned to their lands, marched in Moscow. On the darker side, there is "Pamyat" (Memory) which went beyond its agenda of support for restoration and preservation of the Russian past to •arch in Moscow with anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic placards. The ouster of Boris Eltsin, head of the Moscow City Party...
Seite 183 - They are supplied with selections of information and entertainment, fact and fiction, news and fantasy or "escape" materials which are considered important or interesting or entertaining and profitable (or all of these) in terms of the perspectives...
Seite 103 - The sharp divergences between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China have been and are being utilised by the imperialists. The combined military and economic strength of the two would have bf en the biggest deterrent to the imperialist powers and would have been instrumental in bringing about radical changes in the world situation.
Seite 34 - ... coverage of the West on Soviet television obviously coincide. The media set the agenda for the public. They successfully stressed the importance of the West and gave it such high priority, that some now have second thoughts about it. The head of the official Soviet youth organization finds it intolerable that "young men and women often know more about events taking place on the other side of the globe than about what goes on in their region and city.
Seite 17 - Gosteleradio, who asserted late in 1985 that radio is on the rebound, with the average urbanite tuning in more than one and a half hours a day. He credits this growth to the development of small radio sets, higher consumption of automobiles (with radios), and the introduction of stereo sound.
Seite 3 - Clearly, as one can tell from official pronouncements on communications, the political leaders were slow to grasp the potential of television to capture the attention of the population and therefore to function as an important instrument of persuasion. But perhaps equally critical was the configuration of the country itself, with a vast land mass stretching over eleven time zones.