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9780719084454

Pockets of Resistance British News Media, War and Theory in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq

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    9780719084454

  • ISBN10:

    0719084458

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-09-13
  • Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Summary

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study. As part of President Bush's "war on terror," the invasion was the most controversial British foreign policy decision since Suez, and its ramifications and aftermath have rarely been far from the news. In the many political and public debates regarding this conflict, arguments over the role of the media have been omnipresent. For some, media coverage was biased against the war, for others it became a cheerleader for the invasion. Where does the truth lie? Drawing upon a uniquely-detailed and rich content and framing analysis of television and press coverage, and on interviews with some of the journalists involved,Pockets of Resistanceprovides an authoritative assessment of how British news media reported the 2003 Iraq invasion and also of the theoretical implications of this case for our understanding of wartime media-state relations. Pockets of Resistanceexamines the successes and failures of British television news as it sought to attain independence under the difficult circumstances of war, and describes and explains the emergence of some surprisingly vociferous anti-war voices within a diverse national press. In debunking political claims of anti-war media bias, as well as portraying media-state relations in a more nuanced fashion than in most existing accounts in the field, this study offers a theoretically-grounded starting point for a more nuanced understanding of how and why media report war in the way that they do. Essential reading for scholars, advanced students, journalists and policy makers.

Author Biography

Piers Robinson is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester. Peter Goddard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. Katy Parry is Research Associate in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. Craig Murray is head of Media Analysis at Opoint AS, Norway. Philip M. Taylor is Professor of International Communications at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figuresp. vi
Preface and acknowledgementsp. viii
Introductionp. 1
Mobilising for battle: The news media and war from Vietnam to Iraqp. 11
Theorising and analysing media performance in wartimep. 34
Placing coverage of the invasion in contextp. 64
'Supporting our boys in battle': Evidence for supportive coverage and the elite-driven modelp. 76
'Independence, diversity and professional autonomy': Evidence for negotiated and oppositional coveragep. 107
Case studies from the invasion of Iraq: Jessica Lynch, Ali Abbas and the anti-war movementp. 132
Conclusion: Patterns of support, negotiation and oppositionp. 161
Further information about the content and framing analysisp. 188
Examples of the detailed criteria provided to coders for assessing thematic framesp. 191
Bibliographyp. 196
Indexp. 210
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