Al Jazeera

By way of an account of evolving media institutions in a Middle East distinguished by advanced technology and repressive media policy, the article argues that Qatar-based Al Jazeera is marked by "hybridity"--an instrumental element of modernist/

elitist commercialized development in Qatar, a force of transnational dislocation of postcolonial Arab experience, and a cross-national unifying mechanism of Islamic identify politics and expansionism.

The article presents Al Jazeera as a work in progress--avowedly articulating an Arab perspective, seeking legitimacy as an objective source of reportage in the Arab/Islamist context, and at the same time pursuing commercial opportunity. The useful analysis of commercialism as a potential threat to Al Jazeera's long-term prospects is not, however, balanced by analysis of its post-9/11 role as transmitter of Islamist standpoint culture.

Ha, D. (n.d.) War in Iraq & terrorism frame: Critical analysis on CNN's coverage. Paper submitted to the Political Communication Division of the 54th ICA annual meeting, New Orleans.

This article asserts CNN's abandonment of reportorial responsibility and critical scrutiny of government evidence and a failure to interrogate the reliability of media sources with a vested interest in shaping public opinion in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. Program content centered on anticipation of and justification for invasion predicated of a conflation

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addressing viewers as personal stakeholders in its outcome. The authors identify the main problem with their statistical study as being the small telephone survey sample that was employed to collect data about perceptions of the war. However, the results are stunningly dramatic in showing that the more forceful (loud? opinionated? uncivil?) a mass-media presentation, the more likely it is to gain adherents. Robie, D. (2003). The invasion of Iraq--and how the media war was won and lost. Justified War? Seminar, Auckland University Continuing Education. This is a critical analysis of mainstream-media "embedment" with Anglo-American military forces running the Iraq invasion in 2003 and what the author takes to be the inevitable overreliance on "protagonists" in the conflict as ultimate sources of reportage, plus the protagonists' silencing of independent reportage by way of "coincidental" targeting of independent-media housing and infrastructure. It presumes protagonist information management and well-planned mainstream "smears" of critics of authorities' behavior in the war and in managing war information war. It excoriates questions unasked by herd-mentality embedded media. This cogent analysis suffers by authorial lack of acc
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