Strategic Defense Initiative to the world on national television. Geyelin feels that the press should have informed prior to the announcement so as to bring a better coverage of the story to the American people. But President Reagan felt differently and released the information in his own way and fashion, as most great presidents would have done. Serfaty attempts to shed some semblance of light on a very peculiar situation, which is the media and its effect, if any, on the United States' foreign policy and relations. Serfaty fails miserably, all he has done is give a printed place for the liars and con men of our society to defend themselves publicly and offer no sort of rebuttal from the opposing point of view. Due to absence of objective penmanship I will cast the discerning pen. Serfaty and the other authors fail to realize that a good portion of our society is aware that the tabloid trash that is attempted to be rammed down our throats each evening is only a portion of the truth, a sugar coated version if you will. The media is all about the almighty dollar not about informing the American people of the situations that effect there every day lives. Whether its trying to gain ratings points during the yearly television sweeps week or trying to sell more magazines or newspapers, all of the so called media moguls are after is increased revenue to make their already swollen bank accounts even fatter. So in the infamous words of Gene Siskel (may he rest in peace) and Roger Ebert, Simon Serfaty gets a thumbs down for his book The Media and Foreign Policy. This is based literary bias and nonobjective journalism. ...
