The particularity of objectivity: A post-structuralist and psychoanalytical reading of the gap between objectivity-as-a-value and objectivity-as-a-practice in the 2003 Iraqi war coverage

Journalism

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 311-328

  Carpentier, Nico ^a   Trioen, Marit ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Desire; Fantasy; Hegemony; Journalistic identity; Objectivity; Particularism; Universalism; War coverage

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953114424     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909360922     Document Type: Review

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