{"id":55,"date":"2006-11-13T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2006-11-13T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T20:09:00","slug":"sound-and-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/11\/sound-and-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound and fury&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk\/politics\/about\/staff_profiles\/images\/Robinson_Piers_Dr.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk\/politics\/about\/staff_profiles\/images\/Robinson_Piers_Dr.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>According to Manchester University&#8217;s <b>Piers Robinson<\/b> &#8211; that&#8217;s him on the right &#8211; British media coverage of the Iraq War was not <b>&#8220;autonomous in its approach to the official narratives and justifications for the war in Iraq.&#8221;<\/b> Good work Piers! That should render your findings fairly inaccessible. Want more?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Coverage of the war was narrated largely through the voice of the Coalition with much less attention given to other actors.<\/p>\n<p>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. [<a href='http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/aboutus\/news\/display\/?id=83864'>PR<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/b><br \/>Alas, the Iranian News Agency reframes Piers&#8217; text as part of its own competing narrative on the Western media: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irna.ir\/en\/news\/view\/menu-239\/0611137762153115.htm\">UK media &#8216;biased&#8217; towards supporting Iraq war, says research<\/a>. That&#8217;s discourse I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Manchester University&#8217;s Piers Robinson &#8211; that&#8217;s him on the right &#8211; British media coverage of the Iraq War was not &#8220;autonomous in its approach to the official narratives and justifications for the war in Iraq.&#8221; Good work Piers! That should render your findings fairly inaccessible. Want more? Coverage of the war was narrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,50,81],"tags":[39,119,78],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-journalists","category-media","tag-cnn","tag-uk-journalism","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}