Apologies or Evasions

A Critical Look at the New York Times’s and the Washington Post’s Self-Criticism
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage61en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage83en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume9en_US
dc.contributor.authorWiegant, Ruurt
dc.contributor.editorBecker, Carlo
dc.contributor.editorBlanchard, Robert C.
dc.contributor.editorEwens, David R.
dc.contributor.editorHabermann, Christin
dc.contributor.editorRabe, Julia
dc.contributor.editorÖzdemir, Elif
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-28T13:08:59Z
dc.date.available2022-10-28T13:08:59Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractMore than a year after the US invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, both the New York Times and the Washington Post published self-critical articles regarding their coverage of the run-up to the Iraq War. However, an analysis of this coverage in the five days following the UN speech by then-secretary of state Colin Powell shows both papers’ bias to be more profound than these pieces acknowledge. This article quantitatively analyzes each newspaper’s coverage concerning how much of a platform each paper gives to pro- and antiwar voices, thereby revealing both papers’ reporting to be subject to significant prowar bias. A qualitative analysis of the same coverage exposes the various ways in which this bias comes to the fore. Comparing these analyses to the self-critical pieces reveals a lack of acknowledgment of both the severity and the nature of this bias. These findings, which show that the New York Times and the Washington Post downplayed their bias, call into question the ability of these papers to provide balanced news reporting on future proposed military ventures.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.54465/aspeers.09-06
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2554
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn18658768en_US
dc.relation.journalaspeersen_US
dc.relation.journalaltemerging voices in american studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:070en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:973en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldmediastudiesen_US
dc.titleApologies or Evasionsen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Critical Look at the New York Times’s and the Washington Post’s Self-Criticismen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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