Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
A Debate Delayed Is a Debate Denied: U.S. News Media before the 2003 War with Iraq....Pages 11-22
Strange Bedfellows: The Emergence of the Al Qaeda-Baathist News Frame Prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq....Pages 23-37
The Whole World Is Watching, But So What? A Frame Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Antiwar Protest....Pages 39-63
Their Morals Are Ours: The American Media on the Doctrine of “Preemptive War”....Pages 65-81
Postmodern War on Iraq....Pages 85-96
Orientalism Revisited: The British Media and the Iraq War....Pages 97-111
The War in Iraq: A View from Australia....Pages 115-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Le Monde on a “Likely” Iraq War....Pages 129-147
The Germans Protest: Still a Country of Pacifists?....Pages 149-162
Sheer and Opaque Screens: The Medical Ethnography of Arabic Television, a Phenomenological Quandary of Communal Memory, Suffering, and Resistance....Pages 165-180
American Crisis-Israeli Narrative: The Role of Media Discourse in the Promotion of a War Agenda....Pages 181-194
Why The Russians Did Not Support the 2003 Iraq War: A Frame Analysis of the Russian Television Coverage of the Coming of the War in Iraq....Pages 197-221
Clashing World Views: Coverage of the Prewar Iraqi Crisis in the Chinese Press....Pages 223-236
The Coverage of Debates on the Iraq War: The Case of Zimbabwe....Pages 239-248
Turn on, Tune in: Language of War in Iraq (Chile, Mexico, and Spain)....Pages 249-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-283