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A Comparison of United States Network Television News Coverage of Sub-Sahara Africa Before and After the 1975-76 Angola Conflict

The proposition that American network television news coverage of sub-Sahara Africa increased substantially after the 1975-76 Angola conflict is examined in this study of the responsiveness of television to changing news values at the international level. News coverage for two thirty-month periods before and after the Angola conflict is compared using data derived from the Television News Index and Abstracts. The study finds that network news coverage of sub-Sahara Africa increased from 0.36 per cent of total news time before the Angola conflict to 4.46 per cent after, indicating that network news coverage is a reflection of the intensity of United States government activity at the international level.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc504108
Date05 1900
CreatorsIlegbodu, Fred O.
ContributorsKim, Tae Guk, Glick, Edwin L.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatii, 68 leaves, Text
CoverageAfrica, 1975-1976
RightsPublic, Ilegbodu, Fred O., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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