Election Campaigns and Television News Coverage: The Case of the 2001 Australian Election

This paper examines the patterns of television news coverage of the political parties, their leaders and the issues they raised during the 2001 Australian federal election campaign. By focusing on some issues, parties and leaders, television has long been argued to constrain voters' evaluations. We find that television news coverage in the 2001 Australian election campaign focused primarily on international issues, especially terrorism and asylum seekers, and on the two major parties—virtually to the exclusion of coverage of the minor parties and their leaders. Within the major party ‘two-horse race’, television gave substantially more coverage to the leaders than to the parties themselves, thereby sustaining what some have called a ‘presidential’-style political contest. John Howard emerged as the winner in the leaders' stakes, garnering more coverage than Labor's Kim Beazley.     

CBC News Coverage of Canada's 2006 Liberal Party Leadership Candidates

Content-coded CBC evening newscasts are used in this article to examine reports on the eight candidates for Liberal Party leader in the weeks before the party's 2006 convention. In a sharp contrast to news reports on US presidential nominations, The National provided coverage balanced between the horse race and more substantive matters, including policy discussions and a candidate's personality and leadership qualities. But as with US nomination coverage, The National largely ignored trailing candidates, focusing nearly all its attention on the likely and plausible nominees. In terms of tone, The National provided “compensatory coverage,” where front-runners were treated more negatively than the candidates who were further back in the field.     

History in Journalism and Journalism in History: Anthony Lewis and the Watergate Crisis

Let me plunge right into a Lewis column to convey his marvelous craft in weaving the past into a contemporary moment. This one is from July 8, 1974. The column is about the oral argument before the Supreme Court in the Executive Privilege case, which was to enter the constitutional canon as United States v. Nixon . ¹ Lewis writes as both eyewitness and commentator. He begins with constitutional history by invoking the legendary case of Marbury v. Madison :     

Reflections on War and Peace

Suganami, Hidemi, On the Causes of War
Kagan, Donald, On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace     

塞浦路斯 地中海的蓝色牧歌

风光旖旎的塞浦路斯地中海之滨,实为美若仙境:犬牙交错的海滨岩石,清澈见底;青碧如绿松石般的海水,每一分钟都毫不费力地凝固成一幅画卷。目眩于地中海的蓝色梦幻,还有那静静漂浮的各色游艇,让我真实地以为它们竟浮于空中……     

Reporting on Two Presidencies: News Coverage of George W. Bush's First Year in Office

Personal coverage of President Bush during 2001 on network television and in six U.S. newspapers became far more positive after September 11, 2001, with the largest gains found in network television coverage. Coverage of the rest of the Bush administration, in contrast, became distinctly more negative after the terrorist attacks. The vast majority of the executive branch coverage both before and after the terrorist attacks in all media outlets focused on job performance, not the questions of character, ethics and political conduct that often dominate presidential campaign coverage.     

对马克思主义新闻观的认识与思考

本文阐述了马克思主义新闻观的基本原理及其在社会主义新闻事业中的重要性,并结合时代特征,指出了这一理论如何指导媒体运用与实践的有效途径。     

法国的新闻史研究

20世纪40年代法国新闻界欣欣向荣,但是第二次世界大战不仅涂炭生灵,而且也使新闻界遭受严重的打击。战后的历史学家开始反省战争对人类带来的灾难,在他们看来,审视媒体的自由程度是这个重大的历史命题不可回避的主要手段。本文就是从这个角度入手,希望能呈现20世纪40年代以来法国历史学界阐释新闻史的方法和重点,以及历史学家们如何以历史学为阵地捍卫新闻自由乃至民主权利的。最后,新闻史学史的研究还与社会经济史学史的发展轨迹近乎一致。本文试图向读者呈现两种学科的交融与分裂。     

麦克米伦政府与塞浦路斯独立

麦克米伦执政时期,塞浦路斯已成为英国的一种负担。岛内希腊族人要求归并希腊,为此与土耳其族人、英国殖民当局发生的武装冲突愈演愈烈。由于希腊和土耳其的介入,塞浦路斯问题日益复杂化和国际化。出于现实的考虑,麦克米伦政府不断修改对塞浦路斯的政策,最终在保留英国军事基地主权的前提下同意塞浦路斯独立。英国由此从塞浦路斯的泥淖中得以脱身,塞浦路斯岛内则获得了短暂的和平。     

澳大利亚与柬埔寨的和平进程

印度支那是战后国际关系的一个焦点地区。1978年越南对柬埔寨的入侵使柬国内政治局势更加扑朔迷离。在柬埔寨漫长的和平进程中,包括中国、法国、东盟、澳大利亚在内的国际社会发挥了积极的建设性的协调作用。联合国组织更是责无旁贷地组织并主导了柬埔寨大选。本要探讨的是作为一个中等实力的国家——澳大利亚,如何利用自己的外交资源、影响以及一个相对中立的国家所享有的独特的外交协调能力及优势,与国际社会一道推动柬埔寨和平进程。