The elite Canadian print media construction of the Cuban Revolution,1956-1962

详细信息   

• 作者：Rowley ; Andrew Jameson
• 学历：Master
• 年：2015
• 关键词：Social sciences ; Communication and the arts ; Cuba ; Ca
• 导师：Wright,Robert A.
• 毕业院校：Trent University
• Department：History
• 专业：Canadian history;International Relations;Mass communications
• ISBN：9781321318319
• CBH：1568595
• Country：Canada
• 语种：English
• FileSize：1314691
• Pages：215

文摘

This study examines the elite national print media reaction to,and coverage of,the Cuban Revolution,between 1956 and 1962. It finds that media,equally alienated by both Fidel Castro and the United States,progressively pursued an independent narrative predicated on an homage to Cuban sovereignty. Specifically,media uniformly adopted veteran New York Times ' reporter Herbert L. Matthews' conflation between Cuban postcolonial independence and the Revolution following his exclusive interview with Fidel Castro in February 1957. Media maintained it until 1962 as it remained the only consistent,defensible theme amid Castro's apparent failure to meet expectations and the United States' cautious indifference to a revolution in kind and abject disregard for Cuban sovereignty. Research is based on an exhaustive review of eleven carefully selected elite broadsheets and three national magazines. Overall,this study offers an important counterpoint to the broader body of Canada-Cuba-U.S. postwar historiography that almost exclusively addresses foreign policy.