International studies, Vol. I No. 4, 2001.
Original scientific paper
Op-ed Pages of the New York Times and Politics Towards Ex-Yugoslav States
Gordana Vilović
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The media have always exerted a considerable influence on foreign policy and in the information era this interaction has reached its peak. To what extent are the media just message carriers or creators of public opinion? To what extent can the media influence foreign policy decision-makers on the basis of reports and information gathered from crisis areas? This research deals with only one aspect of the influence of the media and newspapers, exemplified by a concrete newspaper-form - a comment published in op-ed pages of The New York Times, one of the world's most prestigious daily newspapers. Prominent columnists, public figures and former statesmen can exert a considerable influence on the alteration of a certain political decision by means of their analyses and comments, especially when it considers "a tepid and undefined" policy, like the one of the State Department towards the countries of the former Yugoslavia in the period from 1990 to 1995. The research also confirms that an analysis of the contents of a published comment can point at interrelation of the media and political elite.
Keywords
media; newspapers; influence of media on foreign policy; ex-Yugoslav states; The New York Times
Hrčak ID:
286427
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2001.
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