[Commlist] New book: Journalism and Foreign Policy: How the US and UK Media Cover Official Enemies

New Edited Volume
Journalism and Foreign Policy: How the US and UK Media Cover Official 
Enemies
Edited By Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman & Tabe Bergman

https://www.routledge.com/Journalism-and-Foreign-Policy-How-the-US-and-UK-Media-Cover-Official-Enemies/Hearns-Branaman-Bergman/p/book/9780367541378

Book Description
This edited collection brings together critical and up-to-date 
assessments of how mainstream American and British media cover their 
respective foreign policies, paying special attention to ‘official enemies’.
In the age of the internet and social media, the reporting and 
commentary on world events by mainstream Western media remains tightly 
bound by the way in which Western governments promote their framing. 
This book explores the extent to which historical and recent Western 
media coverage has reflected and continues to reflect the foreign 
policies of the United States and the United Kingdom towards ten 
non-Western countries: Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Haiti, Iran, Palestine, 
Russia, Serbia, Syria, and Vietnam. Chapters analyse media coverage 
before, during and after war and geo-political and economic conflicts. 
Drawing from diverse perspectives and methods, including historical 
analysis, content analysis, critical discourse analysis, and critical 
linguistics, Journalism and Foreign Policy offers original insight into 
the Western media’s representation of important global events and 
developments, as well as the key scholarly issues of propaganda and 
digital media, across a wide range of recent coverage.
This volume is key reading for academics and students in the areas of 
foreign policy and international politics, international communication, 
media content analysis, and journalism.

Table of Contents
1 Introduction: The Enduring Nexus between News Media and Foreign Policy 
– Tabe Bergman and Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
2 The Serbs in Western Political and Media Discourse: Othering, 
Demonisation and Tutelage – Philip Hammond
3 The More Things Change, the More the Frame Remains the Same: Comparing 
American and Russian Coverage of Dissident Alexei Navalny – Sarah Oates 
and Nataliya Rostova
4 Mired in Tradition: How the US and UK News Media Frame Iran as an 
Official Enemy – Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
5 Still Misreporting Gaza: Violence and Context in the British Press 
Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2021 – Ruth Sanz Sabido
6 ‘Chemical Weapon Attacks and an Evil Dictator’: Outsourcing Propaganda 
during the War in Syria – Piers Robinson
7 American News on Haiti: The Enduring Imperial Mindset – Tabe Bergman
8 Anti-Cuba Narratives in the US Media: The Struggle between Ownership 
and Independence – Keith Bolender
9 Not So Golden Anymore: UK Press Coverage of the Changing UK-China 
Relations in the 21st Century – Qingning Wang
10 The US Media on the Vietnam War and Beyond: In the Name of 
Objectivity – Dien Nguyen An Luong and Hong Tien Vu
11 The Western Media on the War in Afghanistan: Still Mirroring Official 
Views – Tabe Bergman and Fangyuan Liu

Editors
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman is Associate Professor of International 
Journalism and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at 
Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United 
International College. His research interests include 
post-structuralism, ideology, critical linguistics, political economy of 
news, comparative journalism, tourism, and epistemological theory. He 
has published two books, /Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond 
Objectivity and Balance/(2016) and /The Political Economy of News in 
China: Manufacturing Harmony/(2015).
Tabe Bergman is Director of the MSc Media and Communication and the 
Deputy Head of the Department of Media and Communication at Xi’an 
Jiaotong-Liverpool University, in Suzhou, China. His research focuses on 
global media and journalism. He has published over 15 refereed articles 
and book chapters, and is the author of /The Dutch Media 
Monopoly/(2014). Before entering academia, he was a freelance 
journalist, a web editor, and a global news editor with the Associated 
Press.
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