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Author | Courtney Huck |
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Title | Embedded and Unilateral Journalists: How their Access to Sources Affected their Framing During the 2003 Iraq War |
Department | Communication |
Advisors | Sheryl Cunningham, Molly Wood, and Catherine Waggoner |
Year | 2017 |
Honors | University Honors |
Full Text | (610 KB) |
Abstract | With the 2003 United States' led invasion of Iraq, the Department of Defense created an embedded war correspondent program that had never been used to such a broad extent by the U.S previously. Immediately, critics of the program claimed that embedded journalists would have a personal bias because of their continuous interactions with the soldiers, and, as a result, critics claimed that stories from embedded journalists would only present the Unites States in a positive light. This study examines articles from two embedded journalists and two non-embedded (unilateral) journalists throughout the first four months of the invasion (March 20, 2003-July 31, 2003). Through examination of the articles that emerged during the chosen time-period, findings show that embedded and unilateral journalists' access to specific kinds of sources during different periods of the invasion greatly shaped the direction of their stories. |
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