Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932523
- Title
- Neo-conned: the Murdoch press and the Iraq War
- Author/Creator
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Hobbs, Mitchell
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
- Description
- This article explores the relationship between ideology and media representations. It seeks to (1) re-contextualize the 2003 invasion of Iraq by exposing the ideological impetus for the conflict; (2) highlight the role played by the Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, in helping neoconservative mandarins gain influence over the political public sphere of the United States; and (3) determine whether the ‘Iraq/weapons of mass destruction’ story, as reported in the Australian Murdoch press, was influenced by the ideological proclivities of the CEO of News Corporation. Drawing on an empirical case study, this article contends that Murdoch’s influential broadsheet newspaper, The Australian, contained a pro-war/pro-neoconservative ideological bias during the sampled period.
- Relation
- International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics Vol. 6, Issue 2, p. 187-207
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/mcp.6.2.187_1
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Intellect
- Keyword(s)
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Rupert Murdoch;
media bias;
neoconservative;
ideology;
Iraq War
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932523
- Identifier
- ISSN:1740-8296
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