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27842
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English
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The Italian press and the Church : Italian newspaper coverage of LDS-related news and the media strategies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Italy
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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253
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Master's Thesis
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The relationship between media and religion has been influenced by many factors in history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has received a great deal of media attention throughout the world in the past five years. In Italy, the Church National Council of Public Relations worked to provide the media with the necessary information to report accurate news about the Church. This thesis collected the information provided to the Italian media by the Church National Council and analyzed the main topic and the level of accuracy reported by the Italian media on Church-related news. The results show that Italian media tend to use the information provided by the Church only when discussing the Church in Italy, but still report a great deal of inaccurate or misleading information when discussing the Church in the world.