Document Type
Book Chapter
Abstract
In 2006, Diane Sawyer became the first American journalist to broadcast live from inside North Korea. Her trip ended with an hour-long special programme scrutinising life in what she considers possibly ‘the most dangerous flashpoint on Earth’ (Sawyer 2006). The threat Sawyer actually presents, however, is not that of a nuclear-armed country but of a country whose regime, despite the will of the people, refuses to be a major market for US consumer goods. Applying Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model of media operations, I conduct a discourse analysis of the textual and visual symbols Sawyer uses in illustrating and evaluating the country’s quality of life in ABC Primetime ‘North Korea: Inside the Shadows’. I conclude that Sawyer is unable to overcome her ethnocentric worldview, and therefore, North Korea is unable to emerge from the shadows.
Disciplines
Communication | International and Intercultural Communication | International Relations | Social Influence and Political Communication
Recommended Citation
Ter Molen, Sherri L. (2013). A propaganda model case study of ABC primetime 'North Korea: Inside the shadows'. In R. Frank, J. E. Hoare, P. Köllner, & S. Pares (Eds.), Korea 2013: Politics, Economy, and Society (pp. 241-266).
Author's unformatted final accepted manuscript
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Comments
NOTICE IN COMPLIANCE WITH PUBLISHER POLICY: This is a reconstructed and formatted version of a chapter originally published in Korea 2013: Politics, Economy, and Society, 2013, 241-266. Copyright © 2013 Brill publishing, Leiden, Netherlands. Archived by permission. At the time of acceptance, Sherri L. Ter Molen was a doctoral student in the Communication: Media & Arts program at Wayne State University.