Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
1-2009
Abstract
The transformation of television has altered the capacity of the state to control the agenda for making war, convening peace, and otherwise exercising its foreign policy options. In the age of the state gatekeeper, there was at least the illusion (and often the reality) that the government could substantially control the flow of images within its borders. With transformations in television systems, national systems of broadcast regulation have declined, replaced by transnational flows of information where local gatekeepers are not so salient. The rise of satellites with regional footprints and the spread of the Internet give governments the ability to reach over the heads of the state and speak directly to populations. Both receiving and sending states will have foreign policies about the meaning of the right to receive and impart information and the extent to which satellite signals can be regulated or channeled.
Keywords
diplomacy, public diplomacy, CNN effect, international broadcasting, free flow of information
Date Posted: 02 February 2010
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
The final, definitive version of this article has been published in:
Monroe E. Price. End of Television and Foreign Policy. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Sep 2009; vol. 625: pp. 196 - 204.
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