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Article: 6. The Iraq War.(War and Media)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- September 22, 2003
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The Data Are Still "Raw"
Needless to say, this writing, in June and July 2003, is too soon after the end of the major ground fighting in the Iraq war to be able to refer to much academic research on that war. Nevertheless, reporting on the war has been subjected to such intense scrutiny that many "journalistic" articles on the topic can lay some claim to the name "research." Such articles, as well as some commentary by informed sources provides most of the source material for this section.
A Long Preamble
Between what we are calling the "Gulf War," of 1991, and the "Iraq War," of 2003, was a period of 12 years dominated, with regard to Iraq, by ...