Media, Crisis and Democracy Leah Levenson editors Robert Emmet Moffit and

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Media, Crisis and Democracy Leah Levenson editors Robert Emmet Moffit andIntended for academics and students in media studies and political science, the authors of this book explore through a number of different contexts the way in which crises highlight the problematic issues of media performance in democratic states. They examine the relationship between communication and civil society through a number of actual cases of media responses to "crises", ranging from the Gulf War of 1991 to recent events in Eastern Europe.