Andrzej Nowosad: Methods and techniques of procuring and processing media information for the needs of intelligence

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The analysis of media information is a crucial (one of the most important, if not a fundamental) mechanism for procuring data about countries and regions. Specialized analytical units that browse the foreign press are to be found with practically every government and diplomatic post. The way in which the local press assesses the functioning of a given state has an incredible influence on the decision of foreign governments towards this country.