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Public Awareness Of Human Rights: Distortions In The Mass Media, Eric Heinze, Rosa Freedman
Public Awareness Of Human Rights: Distortions In The Mass Media, Eric Heinze, Rosa Freedman
Prof. Eric Heinze, Queen Mary University of London
This article examines distortions of human rights reporting in the mass media. We examine human rights coverage in four of the most influential newspapers, two from the US and two from the UK. The US papers are The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. The British papers are The Financial Times and The Guardian.
Most current scholarship on international human rights draws its information from specialized sources, such as the published reports of intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations. Wholly absent has been any systematic study of the mass media. To date, no one has examined the dominant media agencies, …