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This study explores questions of bias in the U.S. “prestige” press in relation to Mideastern conflicts. It attempts to explain the social, political, economic, organizational and technological forces influencing the gatekeeping process of the newsroom and foreign correspondents.…

This study examines source attribution in press reports of military conflict. Several issues in media sociology are addressed: (1) Whether anonymous attribution is more prevalent when American forces are committed to an active area; (2) whether certain types of news sources tend…

This study examines whether ideology or a reliance on official sources is the primary influence upon the elite media during times of armed conflict by analyzing the Iraq war coverage in the Washington Post and the New York Times. By August 2004 each newspaper had admitted that i…

The focus of the research in the present study is on the reactions of the American mass media to the unprecedented attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. In the six months following the attacks, Islam, Arabs and Muslims were covered extensively…

This dissertation examines the linguistic processes through which a projected event was constructed in the New York Times (NYT) and Washington Post (WP). The constructive processes of these papers were analyzed by examining the first 3 weeks reporting of the 1990 Persian Gulf co…