Word: medias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BOSTON--Stephen F. Clifford, State Insurance Commissioner, resigned yesterday, after one month in office, saying he has been "subjected to unreasonable and unfair attacks by the media...
Malcolm Toon, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow, met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the Kremlin to indicate "our dismay and surprise" that the official Soviet media would act "in a way that could increase the danger to Americans in Iran," Carter said...
...LINE with this dark vision of Iran's potential leadership, the American media wrote of the mass opposition to the Shah in loaded, pejorative terms. Americans read of mobs rampaging, and Newsweek reported that "thousands of hysterical Iranians" wept for their dead. In contrast, the Shah emerged was the force of reason, and the only force that the United States could conceivably support to block the rising tide of anarchy...
...confident reports that the Shah would weather the crisis are gone now, and the American media is taking a bit more care when describing Iran's various power holders. But the American press was more than simply mistaken in its predictions; the distortion and misunderstanding of the nature of Iranian opposition forces reflected nationally held values and opinions that paved the way for a repetition of the United States's most familiar foreign policy fiasco. The Iran that the press and the U.S. government sought was one that would be westernized along the Shah's U.S. inspired model...
...cultural strangeness, our commitment to the Shah could not be questioned; he was the only game in town. Combine those blinders with a belief that the United States ought to do something to combat the indigenous forces of anarchy and superstition in foreign lands, and the result is a media urging the U.S. action to save the Shah somehow and a government fumbling to find some way of intervention that would accomplish this Herculean labor...