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This study looks at television coverage of the economy through analysis of the issue of inflation. A year-long corpus of material from the BBC and ITN is surveyed. The focus is on the way this medium handles explanations of the causes of inflation — and on the political implications that follow. The agenda that emerges is broadly based in political terms and reification of the economy is not found to be a common feature of the coverage. Explanations for the contours of the agenda (and omissions from it) are sought in terms of newsroom practice and the location of the coverage within a broader discourse of economic ideas.

Media's role in wartime has long been the subject of controversy, marked by claims that media promote, or indeed constrain, military action, and over the impact of patriotism and new technologies on wartime levels of media autonomy. Based on a detailed examination of U.K. press and television coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and of the U.S./U.K. coalition's media briefings, this report summarizes initial findings concerning media management and press content. We show that the coalition consistently promoted the humanitarian case for war, humanitarian operations and àslow but sure' military progress, while U.K. press coverage largely reflected this focus upon military progress, accepting and even promoting the broader humanitarian rationale for war. Nevertheless, we uncovered a degree of media criticism that emerged in response to events outside the coalition's control, such as civilian and military casualties. We also direct readers to further outputs from the project analyzing various aspects of British media coverage of the invasion in greater detail.

In this article, the authors draw upon the results from a substantial content and framing analysis of the British media's treatment of the 2003 Iraq War to show how Britain's national press managed their coverage of the initial combat phase of the war against the background of substantial public and elite opposition. They show that reporting was dominated by coverage of the ongoing battle, that newspapers offered a similar subject agenda to one another and that coalition actors were prominent and likely to be reported neutrally. But the article uncovers a substantial diversity of opinion and tone across the British press and identifies five different editorial approaches to the conflict which are sustained across the news and editorial pages of different newspapers. Through a closer examination, the authors attempt to account for the existence of these approaches in relation to the effects of public opposition to the war, patriotism and newspapers' longstanding political allegiances. Finally, they suggest that, in the British press at least, this plurality of opinions and forms of coverage offers a challenge to longstanding assumptions about the extent to which the media have tended to offer support to official positions in relation to war.

A B S T R A C T ■ The 2003 Iraq War was highly controversial in the UK, generating domestic opposition and a widely supported anti-war movement, the Stop the War Coalition. This article assesses the extent to which anti-war protesters were successful at securing positive coverage in the British press immediately before and during the invasion of Iraq. The study shows that, although anti-war protesters received more favourable than unfavourable coverage prior to the war, once the war got under way, a `support our boys' consensus led to the narrowing of what Daniel Hallin has termed the `sphere of legitimate controversy' with the anti-war movement relegated to a `sphere of deviance'. The article also demonstrates that elite-led protest was more successful at influencing newspaper debate than grassroots protest. Overall, the results highlight the problems protest movements have in securing positive media representation during war. ■

Der Irakkrieg von 2003 war in Großbritannien höchst umstritten und bewirkte das Entstehen einer einheimischen Opposition und einer von weiten Teilen der Bevölkerung unterstützten Anti-Kriegsbewegung, der Stop the War Coalition?. Der Beitrag untersucht, in welchem Maße die Antikriegs-Proteste erfolgreich darin waren, eine positive Berichterstattung unmittelbar vor und während der Invasion des Irak zu bewirken. Die Studie zeigt, dass, obwohl über die Antikriegs-Proteste vor dem Krieg eher positiv als negativ berichtet wurde, als der Krieg tatsächlich ausbrach, ein Konsens zur Unterstützung unserer Jungs? zu einer Verengung der von Daniel Hallin so bezeichneten Sphäre der legitimen Kontroverse? führte, die die Anti-Kriegsbewegung in eine Sphäre der Abweichung? abdrängte. Der Beitrag zeigt auch, dass ein von der Elite angeführter Protest erfolgreicher darin war, Einfluss auf die Debatte in den Zeitungen zu nehmen, als Protest von der Basis. Insgesamt unterstreichen die Ergebnisse der Studie die Probleme, die Protestbewegungen in Kriegszeiten haben, wenn es um eine positive Darstellung in den Medien geht. (UNübers.) (UN)

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