Impact of Television on U. S. Foreign Policy
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Excerpt from Impact of Television on U. S. Foreign Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, April 26, 1994 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:06 a. m., in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Lee H. Hamilton (committee) presiding. Chairman Hamilton. The Committee on Foreign Affairs meets this morning to examine foreign policy from a slightly different angle, the impact of television on U. S. foreign policy. There can be little doubt that television has had an impact, perhaps a profound impact, on the conduct of U. S. foreign policy. Spurred by technological advances ranging from satellites to cellular phones, vivid images of conflict and deprivation are sent instantly to American homes from the world´s trouble spots, whether in Haiti or Somalia or Bosnia or the Persian Gulf. These televised images quickly become a central part of the foreign policy debate. They affect which crises we decide to pay attention to or which we ignore. They affect how we think about those crises, and I have little doubt these televised pictures ultimately affect what we do about these problems. Television can educate the public and focus attention on far off trouble spots that may otherwise be ignored. It can provide world leaders the means to communicate with each other directly in a crisis. But television also encourages policymakers to react quickly, perhaps too quickly, to a crisis. It allows the media to set the agenda. It generates pressure for action selectively: why Somalia and not Sudan, why Bosnia and not Nagorno Karabakh? Television, critics say, leads not to sound foreign policy, but to sound bites masquerading as policy. Secretary of State Christopher has warned that television cannot be the North Star of our foreign policy, but it may be too late. Pictures of the starving children, not policy objectives, got us into Somalia in 1992. Pictures of U. S. casualties, not the completion of our objectives, led us to exit Somalia last month. Pictures of the market bombing in Sarajevo helped get us more deeply involved in Bosnia. Pictures of U. S. casualties, should they occur, could lead us to pull back. What can be done, if anything, to counter the impact of television on our policy? What should policymakers do, if anything, to prevent television from setting their agenda? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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