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Framing event-driven news: the promotion of the US agenda in the Colombian armed conflict

This book explores the relationship between political power and news media influence. It does so by assessing how dramatic events that have not been set by elites are reported and how this affects their ability to influence media debate in an international context. This is the only English-language publication to date that engages with these issues. The book offers two specific contributions: first, it is the first book looking at US power projection in Colombia from a political communications perspective. Secondly, the book challenges previous generalizations about the potential of different types of event-driven news to challenge power projection and argues for a more sophisticated theoretical approach. It is aimed at engaging practitioners in communication and media as well as an academic audience. The results of the study were discussed in the Congress of IAMCR/AIERI/AIECS, Universidad Autónoma de México (México, July 22nd, 2009).