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During and after the 2003 Iraq War some political
analysts asserted that the American media sanitized their coverage of
the conflict. Or, to put it another way, the American media was
reticent to show the effects of this war, meaning the soldiers and
civilians killed, maimed, or imprisoned.
These comments prompt three questions. First, did the American media
offer a largely clean (i.e. little to no blood or death) version of the
Iraq war? Second, was the media's coverage of the war more or less
bloody than coverage of other conflicts in the past 20 years? Third,
what do the findings to questions one and two tell us about the role
the media can play in the politics of war?
In this paper I begin the approach to these questions by comparing the
war coverage images of the three major U.S. weekly newsmagazines -
Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report - of five of the more
significant U.S. conflicts of the past 20 years that involved
casualties and prisoners: Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989, Gulf War I in 1991, Somalia
in 1993, and Iraq in
2003. For each of these conflicts I will compare the number and
magnitude of newsmagazine images of American death, violence, and
imprisonment as well as opponent and civilian death, violence, and
imprisonment. Special attention will be paid to cover photos since
their impact (via newstand displays) far exceeds sales numbers. The
content analysis will reveal whether there is a double standard by the
newsmagzines regarding images of U.S. vrs enemy dead and imprisoned and
whether the newsmagazines were more willing to show graphic images of
U.S. dead and imprisoned in the 1990's than they were in the 2000's.
Finally, the paper will offer some possible explanations about what the
effect of these newsmagazine images has on not only the conflicts
studied, but future conflicts. |
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Name: The Midwest Political Science Association
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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MLA Citation:
| Beatty, Bob. "Was the Media More Timid in Covering the Iraq War than in other recent conflicts?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 15, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p82661_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Beatty, B. , 2004-04-15 "Was the Media More Timid in Covering the Iraq War than in other recent conflicts?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p82661_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: During and after the 2003 Iraq War some political
analysts asserted that the American media sanitized their coverage of
the conflict. Or, to put it another way, the American media was
reticent to show the effects of this war, meaning the soldiers and
civilians killed, maimed, or imprisoned.
These comments prompt three questions. First, did the American media
offer a largely clean (i.e. little to no blood or death) version of the
Iraq war? Second, was the media's coverage of the war more or less
bloody than coverage of other conflicts in the past 20 years? Third,
what do the findings to questions one and two tell us about the role
the media can play in the politics of war?
In this paper I begin the approach to these questions by comparing the
war coverage images of the three major U.S. weekly newsmagazines -
Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report - of five of the more
significant U.S. conflicts of the past 20 years that involved
casualties and prisoners: Grenada in 1983, Panama in 1989, Gulf War I in 1991, Somalia
in 1993, and Iraq in
2003. For each of these conflicts I will compare the number and
magnitude of newsmagazine images of American death, violence, and
imprisonment as well as opponent and civilian death, violence, and
imprisonment. Special attention will be paid to cover photos since
their impact (via newstand displays) far exceeds sales numbers. The
content analysis will reveal whether there is a double standard by the
newsmagzines regarding images of U.S. vrs enemy dead and imprisoned and
whether the newsmagazines were more willing to show graphic images of
U.S. dead and imprisoned in the 1990's than they were in the 2000's.
Finally, the paper will offer some possible explanations about what the
effect of these newsmagazine images has on not only the conflicts
studied, but future conflicts. |
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| Was the Media More Timid in Covering the Iraq War? Comparing Images of Death and Capture in the Newsmagazines for Grenada Panama The Gulf War Somalia and the Iraq War By Dr. Bob Beatty Department of Political Science Washburn University Topeka Kansas 66611 Email: Bob.Beatty@Washburn.edu Permission is given by the author to cite the results within this paper 1 On April 23 2003 NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield gave a speech at Kansas State University in which she complained |
| pilots was not as clear of a signal that things 19 might not be going well as only NEWSWEEK went with the graphic cover of the captured US pilot. In the Iraq War there were more images of American wounded but still few of US dead. There were also more graphic images of enemy and civilian dead and wounded than in the Gulf War. Whether this was due to the more controversial nature of the Iraq War is something |
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