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Before the decision to set up safe-havens in northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War, John Major claimed to have been personally moved by television images as he was putting on his socks one morning in his flat, instigating him to begin the process of changing Western policy.1 Before the 1992 Somalia intervention, George H.W. Bush claims to have been disturbed by the images of starving children that he saw on television along with Barbara Bush. Upon seeing the images, he apparently telephoned Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, stating, “Please come over to the White House. I—we—can’t watch this anymore. You’ve got to do something.”2
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Bahador, B. (2007). Demonstrating the CNN Effect. In: The CNN Effect in Action. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604223_2
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