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Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

Does the CNN Effect exist? Political communications scholars have debated the influence of television news coverage on international affairs since television news began, especially in relation to the coverage of massive human rights violations. These debates have only intensified in the last 20 years, as new technologies have changed the nature of news and the news cycle. But despite frequent assertion, little research into the CNN Effect, or whether television coverage of human rights violations causes state action, exists. Bridging across the disciplines of human rights studies, comparative politics, and communication studies in a way that has not been done, this book looks at television news coverage of human rights in the US and UK to answer the question of whether the CNN Effect actually exists.

Examining the human rights content in television news in the US and UK yields insights into what television news producers and policy makers consider to be human rights, and what, if anything, audiences can learn about human rights from watching television news. After reviewing 20 years of footage using three different types of content analyses of American television news broadcasts and two different types of British news broadcasts, and comparing those results with human rights rankings and print news coverage of human rights, Shawna M. Brandle concludes that despite rhetoric from both countries in support of human rights, there is not enough coverage of human rights in either country to argue that television media can spur state action on human rights issues. More simply, the violations will not be televised.

A welcome and timely book presenting an important examination of human rights coverage on television news.

Shawna M. Brandle is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kingsborough Community College, New York. Her interests include media and international relations.

Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society

Edited by Kenneth Rogerson, Duke University
and Laura Roselle, Elon University

International communication encompasses everything from one-to-one cross-cultural interactions to the global reach of a broad range of information and communications technologies and processes. Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society celebratesand embracesthis depth and breadth. To completely understand communication, it must be studied in concert with many factors, since, most often, it is the foundational principle on which other subjects rest. This series provides a publishing space for scholarship in the expansive, yet intersecting, categories of communication and information processes and other disciplines.

1Relational, Networked and Collaborative Approaches to Public Diplomacy

The Connective Mindshift

Edited by R. S. Zaharna, Amelia Arsenault, and Ali Fisher

2Reporting at the Southern Borders

Journalism and Public Debates on Immigration in the US and the EU

Edited by Giovanna DellOrto and Vicki L. Birchfield

3Strategic Narratives

Communication Power and the New World Order

Alister Miskimmon, Ben OLoughlin, and Laura Roselle

4Talk Show Campaigns

Presidential Candidates on Daytime and Late Night Television

Michael Parkin

5The Networked Young Citizen

Social Media, Political Participation and Civic Engagement

Edited by Brian D. Loader, Ariadne Vromen, and Michael Xenos

6Framing War

Public Opinion and Decision-Making in Comparative Perspective

Francesco Olmastroni

7Political Communication and Leadership

Mimetisation, Hugo Chvez and the Construction of Power and Identity

Elena Block

8The Power of Information Networks

New Directions for Agenda Setting

Edited by Lei Guo and Maxwell McCombs

9Television News and Human Rights in the US & UK

The Violations Will Not Be Televised

Shawna M. Brandle

10Beyond the Internet

Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave

Edited by Rita Figueiras and Paula do Esprito Santo

Shawna M. Brandles innovative and meticulous content analysis of US and British TV news documents the shockingly sparse coverage of human rights issues around the world that leaves the general public clueless about the frequency and severity of human rights violations and decision-makers free of pressure to do more than pay lip service to these problems. While crime and terrorism in the West tend to be over-covered, human rights violations are rarely televised according to the research presented here. This is an important book that is especially recommended for the fields of communication, journalism, political science, and human rights studies.

Brigitte Nacos, Columbia University, USA

In this timely new work, Professor Brandle reminds us there are few things more important than human rights. By short-changing news coverage of human rights, media organizations fail to discourage the violence and also limit public outrage over under-covered atrocities. This book is a crucial study of how little we are told about a recurring global danger.

Stephen Farnsworth, Professor of Political Science and Director of the University of Mary Washingtons Center for Leadership and Media Studies, USA

Television News and Human
Rights in the US & UK

The Violations Will Not Be Televised

Shawna M. Brandle

First published 2016

by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Names: Brandle, Shawna M.

Title: Television news and human rights in the US & UK : the
violations will not be televised / Shawna M. Brandle.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series:
Routledge studies in global information, politics and society |
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015029508 | ISBN 9781138908413 (hbk) |
ISBN 9781315694467 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: Human rights in mass media. | Human rightsPress
coverageUnited States. | Human rightsPress coverageGreat
Britain. | Television broadcasting of newsPolitical aspectsUnited
States. | Television broadcasting of newsPolitical aspectsGreat
Britain.

Classification: LCC P96.H852 U57 2015 | DDC 070.4/49323044dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015029508

ISBN: 978-1-138-90841-3 (hbk)

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