Overview
In 1990 every major news organisation forecast a landslide victory for Sandanista leader Daniel Ortega over challenger Violeta Chamorro in the Nicaraguan Presidential election. When the vote went the other way, with Chamorro defeating Ortega, the press faced a sudden about-face. Robert S. Leiken examines in-depth the news coverage of Nicaragua, particularly the 1990 Presidential elections and argues that the journalists' sympathies for the Sandanistas caused them to miss clear signs of opposition to the regime. This book takes a closer look at one of the major issues in international affairs, the perceptions that Americans develop about foreign countries and the role the press plays in creating those perceptions.
Full Product Details
Author: Robert S. Leiken
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.30cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.70cm
Weight: 0.517kg
ISBN: 9780742523418
ISBN 10: 0742523411
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 09 April 2003
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Robert Leiken has been seeking and telling the truth about events in Nicaragua for more than 20 years. Not everyone else has done so. Here is his report on what he has learned, and what everyone interested in Nicaragua should know.--Barone, Michael
What really happened in Nicaragua? Robert Leiken analyzes the shocking misreporting of American journalists and their failure to understand why the Sandinistas lost in 1990. Written with verve and calm, his account will open your eyes to a parade of media stereotypes. Though not an angry book, it will make a reasonable person angry. -- Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University Robert Leiken has been seeking and telling the truth about events in Nicaragua for more than 20 years. Not everyone else has done so. Here is his report on what he has learned, and what everyone interested in Nicaragua should know. -- Michael Barone, senior writer, U.S. News & World Report, and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics Provides intriguing answers to these questions and for the first time tests media coverage of a major foreign policy crisis against an independent analysis of the events covered. Beautifully written, Why Nicaragua Vanished is perfect for all interested in the media, foreign policy, Latin America, or U.S. intellectual life. Sir Read Alot Book Review The book is highly detailed, and often persuasive. Columbia Journalism Review Robert Leiken has produced a masterpiece of serious scholarship, sound reasoning, and lucid writing. His detailed examination of media bias should have a profound impact on the way Americans view news coverage of foreign policy, and, one hopes, on the way journalists view themselves. -- Robert Kagan, author of A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977?1990
Author Information
Robert S. Leiken is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and is the author of several books on Latin America. His commentaries and articles have appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, and Commentary. Previously, Mr. Leiken has been a senior associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He taught at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University, and Boston College.
