Testing Geographical Bias in International News Earthquake Coverage by the Western Press

In his provocative book Coups and Earthquakes, Mort Rosenblum (13) makes the case that U.S. news media distort reality in their coverage of the Third World. For a variety of reasons relating to the structure, policy, and purpose of U.S. news operations, news coverage of the developing nations, accor...

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