Pockets of resistance by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, Comparative Politics, Language Arts & Disciplines, Journalism, Social Science, Media Studies, International Relations, General, Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781847794727
Google: UXa5DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-01-18T04:01:14+00:00

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‘Independence, diversity and professional autonomy’: Evidence for negotiated and oppositional coverage

Overview

This chapter is devoted to documenting and analysing evidence for negotiated and oppositional coverage. This is done in three ways: first, by examining critical coverage that emerged across specific subject areas; second, by describing patterns of coverage in particular media outlets; and third, by presenting time series data. The chapter begins by examining the representation of civilian casualties, military casualties and humanitarian operations across both television and press – three subject areas that generated a good deal of media criticism. Because of their particular importance with respect to the representation of casualties in television news coverage, we integrate our analysis of visuals with our discussion of negotiated and oppositional television reports. We then consider specific media outlets, starting with an examination of Channel 4 News which departed from the pattern set by other television news programmes in adopting a largely negotiated stance in its coverage of the war. Following this, we move to a close comparative analysis of the British press, where we found a diversity of approaches to reporting the war among different titles. We explore our evidence, which included the emergence of an unprecedented and surprisingly vociferous anti-war press and differential use of visuals, but we also show that there were limits to the anti-war stance adopted by some newspapers. Finally, we present further evidence of variability in news media performance in our analysis of time series data that compares reporting in different phases of the war. As in Chapter 5, we finish by relating these findings to the explanatory variables, set out in Chapter 3, associated with the independent and oppositional models.

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