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    Australian journalism and war: Professional discourse and the legitimation of the 2003 Iraq invasion

    Dodson, Giles

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    2010
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    Dodson, G. (2010). Australian journalism and war: Professional discourse and the legitimation of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Journalism Studies, 11(1), 99-114.
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    https://hdl.handle.net/10652/1507
    Abstract
    This paper presents an original study of Australian journalistic professionalism as observed during the Iraq War, 2003. Through an analysis of both in-depth interviews conducted with Australian Iraq War journalists and news discourse produced by Australian journalists at Central Command and ‘embedded’ during the Iraq war, it is argued that professionalism provides the framework of intelligibility used by war journalists to produce accounts of war. Professionalism also serves as a ‘regime of truth’, through which the centrality of professional norms in journalism are articulated. The paper then demonstrates that professionalism, however, serves to justify and legitimate journalistic practice and meaning construction while obscuring the co-opted, functional role played by journalism within contemporary war administration and military strategy. Drawing on discourse analytic concepts, this paper argues professionalism operates as a form of ‘ideological fantasy’, which both militarises journalism and conversely journalises the military.
    Keywords:
    Australian war journalism, Discourse, Ideology, Iraq war, Military-media relations, Professionalism
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    200104 Media Studies
    Copyright Holder:
    Taylor & Francis
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    http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1461%2d670X&volume=11&issue=1&spage=99
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