The Perception of Foreign News

a topic of interest for students of international relations, communication theorists, peace researchers, and the attentive layman. In international relations the flow of news can be seen in relation to the international power structure, partly reflecting a feudal interaction structured In communication research the flow of news can be seen as a process of selection and distortion at every step of the news channel from events to media user. Numerous textbooks on social psychology can tell how messages are perceived, misperceived or forgotten depending on all kinds of psychological predispositions .2 This study is rather of the second kind. It focusses on some factors that make news