Reporting a Revolution : Iranian Revolution and the N.I.I.C.O. Debate

"Reporting a Revolution" studies the patterns of selection and presentation of news relating to the Iranian Revolution in newspapers of two culturally and geographically distant countries - India and the USA.

The study has been conducted in the light of the great debate of the New International Information and Communication Order (NIICO) and pays due attention to the influence of the foreign policies of the two countries on the inclusion and omission of facts about a revolution of long-lasting international importance. Exposing the media's strong reliance on official sources which perceive events from the perspective of their respective national government's foreign policy makers, this book stresses the need for the media of developed as well as developing countries to re-assert their independence from news managers and information manipulators at the national, international and governmental levels.