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A Comparison Of Tv News Coverage Of The American Medium (Cnn) And The Middle East Medium (Al-Jazeera) On The Iraq War, Adrenna Benjamin Jan 2004

A Comparison Of Tv News Coverage Of The American Medium (Cnn) And The Middle East Medium (Al-Jazeera) On The Iraq War, Adrenna Benjamin

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to compare the American medium (CNN) and the Middle East medium (Al-Jazeera) during the Iraq war in two different events that occurred during the war. Through content analysis, this study examined the following unit of analysis to determine the difference in the each medium: content; length of video and length of individual segments; symbolism; political slant; and violent images. Each event that was studied was analyzed by two coders, in which inter-coder reliability was checked.