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This book analyzes the relationship between the media and five political campaigns in Trinidad and Tobago from 2000 to 2010, and whether the way newspapers framed their political coverage of the elections conveyed bias towards political parties. It argues for a new model of media and politics that allows for freedom but incorporates media constraints due to social responsibility, taking into account the developing status of small countries like Trinidad and Tobago that have small media systems. It draws on press clippings of front pages and news stories, as well as editorials and commentaries, from three local daily papers (the Guardian, Express, and Newsday), as well as interviews with media practitioners, to show how the press has a strong effect on electoral outcomes through the way it frames specific parties, politicians, and issues, and may have precipitated the early calling of elections before they were constitutionally due, particularly prime ministers who were openly hostile to the media and situations where press/politics relations had become combative, namely the Panday and Manning regimes. It describes the role of the media in the pre-independence era from 1956 to 2010 and each of the elections through five frames: personality, issue, conflict, horse race, and governing. Distributed by Longleaf Services, Inc. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
