Abstract:This article examines the media coverage produced by several international news organizations about four bombings carried out in Baghdad in the months preceding Iraq's national election conducted in March 2010. In particular, it utilizes the propaganda model postulated by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman to analyse the construction of narratives of various government actors, and it seeks to determine the extent to which select news organizations were complicit in propagating an elite view. Iraqi and US governmen… Show more
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