This article explores George Bush's illness on a trade mission to Japan as an example of a news icon. News icons are symbolic devices that epitomize conflict and change in society and grant journalists license to redefine the policy context. Arising at moments of policy monopoly breakdown, icons give the news media an active role in the policy process.
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