Foreign correspondents played a crucial role in promoting the ideas
and values of the Cold War. As they brought the foreign world to
their Soviet and American readers, these journalists projected
their own ideologies onto their reporting. In an age of mutual
acrimony and closed borders, journalists were among the few
individuals who crossed the Iron Curtain. Their reporting strongly
influenced the ways that policy makers, pundits, and ordinary
people came to understand the American or the Soviet "other." In
Cold War Correspondents, Dina Fainberg examines how Soviet and
American journalists covered the rival superpower and how two
distinctive sets of truth systems, professional practices, and
political cultures shaped international reporting. Fainberg
explores private and public interactions among multiple groups that
shaped coverage of the Cold War adversary, including journalists
and their sources, editors, news media executives, government
officials, diplomats, American pundits, Soviet censors, and
audiences on both sides. Foreign correspondents, Fainberg argues,
were keen analytical observers who aspired to understand their host
country and probe its depths. At the same time, they were
fundamentally shaped by their cultural and institutional
backgrounds-to the point that their views of the rival superpower
were refracted through values of their own culture. International
reporting grounded and personalized the differences between the two
nations, describing the other side in readily recognizable,
self-referential terms. Fundamentally, Fainberg demonstrates,
Americans and Soviets during the Cold War came to understand
themselves through the creation of images of each other. Drawing on
interviews with veteran journalists and Soviet dissidents, Cold War
Correspondents also uses previously unexamined Soviet and US
government records, newspaper and news agency archives, rare Soviet
cartoons, and individual correspondents' personal papers, letters,
diaries, books, and articles. Striking black-and-white photos
depict foreign correspondents in action. Taken together, these
sources illuminate a rich history of private and professional lives
at the heart of the superpower conflict.
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