Most people in the United States and the other American nations learn about world events through the mass media rather than by direct contact; hence the foreign news coverage of the major newspapers can have a great influence on international relations. Here is a study of the amounts and kinds of foreign news carried in outstanding United States and South American dailies and a comparative analysis of the press treatment of foreign news.
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Jerry W. Markham (1961) studied this question.