Al Jazeera: Hybridity and development in the Middle East.
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 of Iraqi evil and Muslim terrorism, not an examination of facts.
While the article's evidence of CNN's lending its worldwide reputation to the US government's Iraq propaganda is abundant and its analysis of CNN's adoption of a war-cheerleader role useful, it could have benefited from an editor who might have coaxed its not infrequently non-idiomatic diction toward clarity.
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