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The Cold War Guerrilla - Jonas Savimbi, the U.S. Media and the Angolan War (Hardcover, New)
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The Cold War Guerrilla - Jonas Savimbi, the U.S. Media and the Angolan War (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications
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This is the first book on U.S. policy in Angola during the 1980s.
Elaine Windrich shows how the Reagan administration and U.S. media
inflated the importance of Jonas Savimbi and helped inflame the
civil war in Angola. Pinpointing media strengths and weaknesses in
shaping and in reporting on a major crisis in Africa, this
ground-breaking work analyzes Savimbi as a cold war guerrilla, the
role of different media segments in the dirty war in Angola, and
the right-wing influence of the Reagan and Bush administrations
into the 1990s. This moving and well-researched account, providing
insights into how the U.S. media covers African and Third World
issues, is a good text for foreign correspondents and for courses
dealing with U.S. foreign policy, journalism and communications,
and with Africa. The image of the Angolan rebel leader as a freedom
fighter is shown to be a product largely of the U.S. media and the
collaboration of right-wing lobby groups closely linked to the
Reagan and Bush administrations. The resurrection of Savimbi, who
represented a lost cause after his defeat in the Angolan civil war
in 1976, but who was kept alive by South African support, was due
to his adoption by the Reagan administration as an ally in the
crusade against Third World governments supported by the Soviet
Union. The study shows how the mainstream media tended to follow
the administration's agenda and right-wing views in portraying
Savimbi as an ally. Windrich also explains how the Bush
administration and the media have continued to support Savimbi and
his rebel movement.
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