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For the Global Thinker

Friday, June 5, 2009

Studies Find that TV Coverage of Iraq Invasion Heavily Sanitized'

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a032040993sanitized

A study by George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs examines the 600 hours of war coverage by the nation’s broadcast news organizations between the coverage of the first strikes (see March 19, 2003) and the fall of Baghdad (see April 9, 2003). The study shows that of the 1,710 stories broadcast, only 13.5 percent show any images of dead or wounded civilians or soldiers, either Iraqi or American.

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