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This study examines how the effects of Cold War rhetoric, especially Korean War-era psychological warfare, manifest dramatically in media coverage of crises or conflicts involving the former adversaries of the Cold War in the Far East. After identifying major clusters of the Korean War-era rhetorical polemics from various psywar leaflets, this study demonstrates how the effects of political self-indoctrination have surfaced in the U.S. and Chinese media coverage of the 1991–94 North Korean nuclear weapons development crisis, the North Korean famine crisis of the mid-1990s, the South Korean financial crisis of 1997–98 and the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999. The study contends that various "enemy images," cultivated and reinforced through the process of self-indoctrination over an extended period, have provided a journalistic framing device which ultimately contributes to a non-dialogic media-based political discourse among the former adversaries of the Korean War.

A study of the agenda-setting effects of the American Broadcasting Corp's TV miniseries "Amerika," ie, the possibility of a major media event setting different types of agendas for different audience members. A total of 347 undergraduates completed (1) a pretest survey of political views & TV habits 4 weeks before the miniseries, & (2) a posttest survey a few days after the series, which was watched by 132 of the respondents (Rs). The level of issue salience was measured in terms of predominance of a particular issue in the conversations engaged in by 248 Rs following the series. Viewers were found to focus on program-specific topics (eg, believability, accuracy), while nonviewers tended to discuss topics extraneous to the central program concerns (eg, political issues, impact of program). Multiple discriminant analysis shows that exposure to peripheral news reports about the program is a better predictor than exposure to the program itself in determining different discussion agendas. 4 Tables. Adapted from the source document.