| Based on analysis of the reports about soviet in NYTIMES&TIME, This paperattempts to research what kind of the actions of the mainstream American press in thepsywar to USSR and the influence to the collapse of USSR.In Academia had do lots of works for the psywar to USSR on the VOA(Voice ofAmerica), few about the mainstream American press. So the paper attempts to do someresearches on quantities,details and characters of the reports about soviet inNYTIMES&TIME, find the spreads and the actions in psywar and collapse of USSR.Form the studies, we can see: the mainstream American press represented by theNYTIMES&TIME has fit within the following specifications: it had the most attentionsabout the USSR; it has given blanket coverage dished dirt on USSR and for very highproportion; it had the same target with the psywar on collapse of USSR. Basis for this,the authors argue that there three roles of the mainstream American press in the psywarto USSR:1.winning the support of domestic constituencies;2. make the announcementto USSR;3.keep up with the government diplomacy, directly serving the psywar toUSSR.Through the above-mentioned analyzing perspective, the author deem: themainstream American press represented by the NYTIMES&TIME’ reports about USSRhas obvious tendency, is an important arena for the psywar and played a significant roleit. The mainstream American press as an megaphone with its famous, did so under themask of independent, just and objectives,to serve the psywar to USSR. The authordeem, With the mainstream American press’ negative reports and the domestic factors,formed a vicious cycle: support to the Glasnost to let the anti-Samak forces controlpublic opinion; with the powerful anti-media, the opponents got more supports andmore attack to the government; government had been weakened by the anti-samarkforces, the anti-Samark forces has more powerful to attack government. At last leadingto USSR ultimate demise. So it does seem that the mainstream American pressrepresented by the NYTIMES&TIME had a bad worked on the collapse of theSoviet Union. |
