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handle is hein.amenin/aeiabsl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Joshua Muravehik Nothing has vexed American foreign policy more in the past decade than the rise of Nicaragua's Sandinistas. After numbering no more than a few hundred in 1978, they had taken power by mid-1979, and by the end of 1980 they were locked in what seemed ineluctable struggle with the United States. Though the Sandinistas had brooded long and intensely about their Yanqui neighbor, few Americans had paid much notice to Nicaragua. Neither the American public nor the U.S. government was at all prepared for the challenge presented by Sandinismo. Nor was the American press. While a few reporters conveyed clear accounts of who the Sandinistas were and what they wanted, others-including correspondents for America's best newspapers-often depicted the San- dinistas as social democrats or as pragmatic, moderate nationalists whose only clear aim was to restore democracy to Nicaragua. Joshua Muravchik has written often about U.S. policy toward Nicaragua and about press coverage of foreign affairs. In this book he takes a close look at how the American news media covered the Sandinistas during the critical two years from July 1978 until July 1980-the last year of the Sandinistas' victorious struggle for power and the first year of their rule. His study reveals the Sandinistas' stratagems for disguising their true beliefs and intentions and shows how some American reporters saw through these ploys while others succumbed to them. An eye-opening study. A lucid, penetrating and careful probe which raises disturbing questions about the accuracy, professionalism and impartiality of media depiction of the Nicaraguan revolution. -Robert S. Leiken Center for International Affairs Harvard University Muravchik's book documents what should be a major source of concern for U.S. journalism: how most media and correspondents failed to report the nature of the Sandinista movement and its will for total power in Nicaragua. It should be read by anybody interested in the dynamics and implications of foreign reporting. -Eduardo Ulibarri Editor La Nacion (Costa Rica) A ISBN 978-0-8447-3662-4 9 780844 736624 >

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