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Abstract
Television coverage of the Chernobyl nuclear accident was a crisis transformed into integrative propaganda. Despite U.S. government efforts to place a particular anti-Soviet spin on the event, a pattern the Reagan administration has followed during other crises, the institutional imperatives of broadcast news and the larger culture altered the administrations attempt at producing agitative propaganda to the production of integrative propaganda. Four elements influenced the alteration of the story by the networks: stereotypical portraits of the Soviet government and people, the undertone of atom angst in many of the news reports, wounded U.S. technological pride after the Challenger disaster, and a government-forced reliance on sources biased toward the extremes of the nuclear debate. The result is that the American public received a highly biased, and not necessarily factual account of the events of the catastrophe. However, because of the nature of the accident itself and fear of the destructive nature of the atom the integrative propaganda produced by the networks also worked to undermine some of its own component parts, among them reliance on technology to provide a form of linear societal progress.
Author Analytic
Wilkins, Lee; Philip Patterson
Author Combination
Wilkins, Lee; Philip Patterson
Call Number
154.W5.R4.4 (VF)
Date of Publication
1987 Feb.
Keywords
Nuclear Disaster ;
Mass Media ;
Information Dispersal ;
Government ;
Politics ;
Notes
Gift of T. Joseph Scanlon Family Submitted to Political Communication Division, ICA
Title Combination
REPORTING CHERNOBYL: CUTTING THE GOVERNMENT FOG TO COVER THE NUCLEAR CLOUD
Title Analytic
REPORTING CHERNOBYL: CUTTING THE GOVERNMENT FOG TO COVER THE NUCLEAR CLOUD
Workform
Unpublished_Work
Id
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