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Reading the Russian Revolution: International Communication Research and the Journalism of Lippmann and Merz

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Mass Communication & Society, 5 (1): 25--39 (2002)

Abstract

This article recovers the historical roots of international communication research in the United States from the journalism of Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz. A crit- ical reading of their 1920 study of the New York Times coverage of the Russian Rev- olution suggests that their analytically sophisticated presentation of a politically vital topic legitimizes their press criticism as intellectual groundwork for the rise of an international communication research tradition.

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