Media Coverage of the Persian Gulf War

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the implications of raw coverage in the media treatment of the 1990-1991 war in the Persian Gulf. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which the issues of raw coverage of the conflict emerged, and then to discuss, with reference to other coverage of crises in recent history, subsidiary issues and larger questions that are raised as a consequence of such coverage.


An almost unique element of raw coverage in the Persian Gulf conflict arose with the onset of Allied bombing of military targets in Baghdad and assorted other sites in Iraq. It was an accident of circumstance that three major reporters from Cable News Network (CNN) were in the Al Rashid Hotel when, in the middle of the night on January 18, 1991, in Iraq, the bombing began. Using hotel-room telephones, Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett,..."

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