Description
Book SynopsisThe most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Trade Review‘Richly detailed and engagingly presented … It is a “must read” for anyone who wants to know how the 24-7 news system covers national security crises, and why that coverage takes the shape that it does.’
‘Pockets of Resistance … intervenes into the heart of contemporary debates about media, democracy and legitimized killing and death. An important new landmark and essential vantage point on the contested field of media and war studies.’
‘Pockets of Resistance is a first-rate study of Iraq war reporting - broad, rigorous and insightful in the way it surveys British coverage of the war. It paints a complex picture of war reporting that clarifies our understanding of the relation between media and political elites during wartime. Without a doubt, it is one of the most ambitious and important works published to date on media and war.’
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Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Mobilising for battle: The news media and war from Vietnam to Iraq
3. Theorising and analysing media performance in wartime
4. Placing coverage of the invasion in context
5. ‘Supporting our boys in battle’: Evidence for supportive coverage and the elite-driven model
6. ‘Independence, diversity and professional autonomy’: Evidence for negotiated and oppositional coverage
7. Case studies from the invasion of Iraq: Jessica Lynch, Ali Abbas and the anti-war movement
8. Conclusion: Patterns of support, negotiation and opposition
Bibliography
Appendices:
A. Further information about the content and framing analysis
B. Examples of the detailed criteria provided to coders for assessing thematic frames
