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Obama, the media, and framing the U.S. exit from Iraq and Afghanistan
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ISBN: 9781409429647 1409429644 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham Burlington Ashgate


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Evaluation and stance in war news : a linguistic analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war
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ISBN: 9781441182425 144118242X 9781847061768 1847061761 9786612875649 1441169547 1282875647 9781441169549 9781282875647 Year: 2009 Publisher: London : Continuum,

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Summary: In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict. Evaluation and Stance in War News functions as a tool kit for the critical evaluation of language in the news, both as raw data in need of interpretation and as carefully packaged products of 'information management' in need of 'unpacking'. The chapters offer an array of t

Media at war : the Iraq crisis
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ISBN: 1412901820 1412901812 1446211665 144623942X 1280371056 9786610371051 1412933676 9781412933674 9781446211663 9781412901819 9781412901826 9781412901828 Year: 2004 Publisher: London : SAGE,

Tell me lies : propaganda and media distortion in the attack on Iraq.
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ISBN: 1849644748 1281750336 9786611750336 1435662032 9781435662032 9781849644747 0745322026 9780745322025 0745322018 9780745322018 9781281750334 6611750339 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Pluto


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Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan
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ISBN: 1317086449 1317086430 1409429652 9781409429654 9781409429647 9781472400130 1409429644 9781317086444 9781317086437 9781315598635 9781317086420 9781138252325 1315598639 1472400135 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK Burlington, VT

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Situating Obama's end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, this timely book begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media framing - the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama's December 2009 ""surge-then-exit"" strategy from Afghanistan and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 - to explore the role of mass media in presenting presidential narratives

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