Al-Jazeera and war coverage in Iraq: The media's quest for contextual objectivity

Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 315-332

  Iskandar, Adel ^a   El Nawawy, Mohammed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b STONEHILL COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 61049429732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203497562     Document Type: Chapter

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