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Dedication -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- The Catholic Civil Rights Movement and the International Transmission of Values -- Imagining International Society -- World Opinion and the Construction of Identity -- Speech, Silence, and International Image -- World Opinion and Leadership in the Northern Irish Peace Process -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Civil Rights Movements of the USA and Northern Ireland -- The American Civil Rights Movement -- The Civil Rights Movement in the USA: Culture and Politics

This article describes how 'tabloid ethics' have infiltrated and transformed traditional notions of journalistic objectivity and is divided into four parts.The first part describes the development of the 'contract by convention' for objective reporting from earlier modes of behavior during the period of partisan journalism. The second part describes the collapse of that contract due to market pressures caused by the rapid availability of news on cable channels and the internet. The third part describes the 'tabloid mentality' that infects all news outlets to some degree, and illustrates this problem by focusing on two incidents from the Iraq War: the capture and rescue of Private Jessica Lynch and the controversy of the roll call of American soldiers killed in Iraq on the television show 'Nightline'. The article concludes by arguing that tabloid journalism currently creates a 'simulacrum of objectivity' that most resembles the entertainment model of 'reality shows'.

The question of whether Samuel Huntington's (1996) theory of the clash of civilizations or the author's (1998) global opinion theory provides the best approach to understanding global discourse regarding the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the US is addressed. News stories (N = 213) published between September 11, 2001, & 31 Oct 2001, in international newspapers (N = 10) representative of Huntington's typology of civilizations are analyzed to determine the international community's positive & negative responses to the US. Although the data analysis revealed that the international community failed to produce a consensual response to the US following the terrorist attacks, it is argued that this finding does not necessarily provide support for Huntington's clash of civilizations thesis. Indeed, two factors that prevented the international community from realizing consensus are identified: global opinion has failed to establish a uniform definition of terrorism & is less inclined to be influenced since these terrorist attacks were not associated with a particular nation. 1 Table, 6 Figures, 30 References. J. W. Parker

This paper studies the relationships among communications, international public opinion, & problems of international order & conflict. It begins by describing the historical role of communication in the definition of communities. It then extrapolates how global communications will play a similar role in the definition of supra-national entities that will structure the relations among nations. Hypotheses are derived that test how discourse conventions in international media provide clues to the relevant entities in the post-Cold War era. These hypotheses follow primarily from a theory of global opinion processes & the emergence of an international community (Rusciano et al, 1998); they are counterposed to Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" theory & the emergence of communities based upon primordial ties of ethnicity & religion (Huntington, 1996). 1 Table, 3 Figures, 8 References. Adapted from the source document.