According to Manchester University’s Piers Robinson – that’s him on the right – British media coverage of the Iraq War was not “autonomous in its approach to the official narratives and justifications for the war in Iraq.” Good work Piers! That should render your findings fairly inaccessible. Want more?

Coverage of the war was narrated largely through the voice of the Coalition with much less attention given to other actors.

This suggests that factors such as reliance upon elite sources, patriotism and news values rooted in episodic coverage continue to be important in shaping war-time coverage. [PR]

Alas, the Iranian News Agency reframes Piers’ text as part of its own competing narrative on the Western media: UK media ‘biased’ towards supporting Iraq war, says research. That’s discourse I guess…