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Contemporary scholarship and casual discussion on media-government relations and security decision making, as discussed in chapter 1, has a demonstrably strong tendency to emphasize the power of the press to shape the agenda of the government through the indirect, and still opaque, mechanism of public opinion. Likewise, the main avenue of inquiry has been through the lens of technology, driven by the fear that the deliberative organs of government are being subverted by contemporary media organizations with powerful communication technologies, few legal restraints, and no mechanisms of democratic accountability.
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© 2007 Derek B. Miller
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Miller, D.B. (2007). Beyond the Contemporary Debate. In: Media Pressure on Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605008_3
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