Foreign media coverage of African liberation struggles

The central thesis of this paper is that media reports contribute significantly to the starting, continuation, and termination of wars. It critically assesses the involvement of the American and British press in the Angolan crisis. In particular, it analyses the coverage of that crisis by six papers, namely, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor of the United States and the London Times, the Guardian, and the Daily Express of Britain. The author observes that the weaknesses found in these papers' coverage of the Angolan crisis may be attributable to the nature of journalism as a profession.