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media-watch-request@lists.stir.ac.ukon 22/4/04 6:42 AM, media-watch-request@lists.stir.ac.uk at media-watch-request@lists.stir.ac.uk22/4/04 6:42 AM wrote:<BR>
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1. Re: Despite media, belief in WMD and Iraq - Al Qaeda links<BR>
persist -PRNewswire - 21April 2004 (Julie-ann Davies)<BR>
2. [US] Editorial Pages and the Case for War - Columbia<BR>
Journalism Review - March/April 2004 (Julie-ann Davies)<BR>
3. FW Most recent report about child victims of war (LINDA LEMON)<BR>
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 19:35:03 +0100<BR>
From: "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004@yahoo.co.uk><BR>
Subject: Re: [Media-watch] Despite media, belief in WMD and Iraq - Al<BR>
Qaeda links persist -PRNewswire - 21April 2004<BR>
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From: "Mark and Andrea" <megandmark@tiscali.co.uk><BR>
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Subject: RE: [Media-watch] Despite media,belief in WMD and Iraq - Al Qaeda<BR>
links persist -PRNewswire - 21April 2004<BR>
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> It's worth adding that this poll is American. Does anyone have access to<BR>
> similar data for Britain<BR>
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Sorry, I should have said. There is a March 2004 Pew Research Center poll<BR>
contrasting British and American views about whether politicians lied about<BR>
WMD or were misled. Some of the other data is also quite interesting.<BR>
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http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=206<BR>
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Further detail from the same poll at:<BR>
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http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=796<BR>
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Unfortunately there is nothing in the survey on the alleged Al Qaeda links.<BR>
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Julie-ann<BR>
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:59:00 +0100<BR>
From: "Julie-ann Davies" <jadavies2004@yahoo.co.uk><BR>
Subject: [Media-watch] [US] Editorial Pages and the Case for War -<BR>
Columbia Journalism Review - March/April 2004<BR>
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THE [US] EDITORIAL PAGES AND THE CASE FOR WAR<BR>
Did our leading newspapers set too low a bar for a preemptive attack?<BR>
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By Chris Mooney<BR>
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http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/2/mooney-war.asp<BR>
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On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell delivered his now<BR>
infamous presentation to the United Nations concerning Iraq's alleged<BR>
weapons of mass destruction and its ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network.<BR>
At the time, many journalists, members of Congress, and key Security Council<BR>
nations remained unconvinced of the necessity of invading Iraq. Laced with<BR>
declassified satellite imagery, communications intercepts, and information<BR>
gleaned from Iraqi defectors, Powell's speech sought to bolster the Bush<BR>
administration's case for war by demonstrating an "accumulation of facts and<BR>
disturbing patterns of behavior" on Iraq's part. And it enjoyed a strikingly<BR>
warm reception from one key U.S. audience: the editorial page writers of<BR>
major newspapers.<BR>
"Irrefutable," declared The Washington Post. Powell "may not have produced a<BR>
'smoking gun,'" added The New York Times, but his speech left "little<BR>
question that Mr. Hussein had tried hard to conceal one." Similar<BR>
assessments came from four other editorial pages that cjr chose to examine -<BR>
the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street<BR>
Journal. Many foreign papers viewed Powell's presentation more skeptically,<BR>
but the endorsements from these six leading domestic editorial boards - four<BR>
of which would ultimately support the war - strengthened Bush's hand<BR>
considerably. "If and when the administration gets editorial support from<BR>
the elite media, it's just about a done deal, because the public will fall<BR>
in line," says David Domke, a professor of communication at the University<BR>
of Washington in Seattle who has studied editorial page response to 9/11 and<BR>
the Iraq war.<BR>
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:40:55 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)<BR>
From: "LINDA LEMON" <linda@jlemon.fsnet.co.uk><BR>
Subject: [Media-watch] FW Most recent report about child victims of<BR>
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