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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (186119)	9/24/2001 4:44:38 PM
From: Ga Bard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

U're Off topic ... Seems military pooling Bush is doing with the military was put into place and first implimented in his father's policies. Here is a report that is a good read... THE "CRISIS IN THE GULF" AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA by Douglas Kellner University of Texas Abstract. In this paper, I carry out a systematic analysis of the mainstream media presentation of the "Crisis in the Gulf" and argue that the dominant media frames and discourse privileged the military solution option and the policies of the Bush Administration. In retrospect, the lack of critical discussion in the media over the administration's positions and policies enabled Bush to prepare for his eventual war and triumph during the air and ground war against Iraq. The failure to critically debate Bush's policies reveals again the failure of the mainstream media to adequately debate issues of public importance and testifies to an intensifying crisis of democracy in which the mainstream media fail to live up to their democratic responsibilities. Employing methods of frame analysis and ideology critique, I analyze the dominant frames and discourses employed by the mainstream media, especially television, in presenting the crisis in the Gulf. I also discuss the pool system and the military attempt to (successfully) manage the images and discourse during the pre-war crisis period. web.mit.edu P2bAAAT