Contra-flow from the Arab world? How Arab television coverage of the 2003 Iraq war was used and framed on Western international news channels

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 439-461

  Wessler, Hartmut ^a   Adolphsen, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 45349089557     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443708091176     Document Type: Review

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