University of Mary Washington Eagle Scholar Political Science and International Affairs College of Arts and Sciences 6-26-2011 International News Coverage of Barack Obama as a New President Stephen J. Farnsworth University of Mary Washington,
[email protected] S Robert Lichter Roland Schatz Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.umw.edu/ps_ia Part of the Journalism Studies Commons, and the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Farnsworth, Stephen J., Lichter, S. Robert, Schatz, Roland. 2011. “International News Coverage of Barack Obama as A New President,” Electronic Media & Politics, 1 (2): 27-45. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts and Sciences at Eagle Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Political Science and International Affairs by an authorized administrator of Eagle Scholar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Electronic Media & Politics June 2011 INTERNATIONAL NEWS COVER- 2009; Zeleny and Cowell 2009; Zeleny AGE OF BARACK OBAMA AS A and Kulish 2008). NEW PRESIDENT Public opinion polls suggest Obama Stephen J. Farnsworth largely succeeded in making the world George Mason University view himself and the country he leads more positively, though the enthusiasm S. Robert Lichter for the new president has since cooled George Mason University somewhat. In Germany, 90 percent of Center for Media and Public Affairs the population said in a survey con- Roland Schatz ducted during April and May of 2010 Media Tenor International that they believed Obama would do the right thing in world affairs, down from 93 percent a year earlier, but dramati- ABSTRACT cally higher than the 14 percent of Ger- mans who said they believed Bush Content-analyzed television newscasts in the would do the right thing in world affairs United Kingdom, Germany and the Middle East in a 2008 survey (Pew 2010).