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This 6-page paper focuses on media coverage of the Iraqi war. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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hostile. And in the age of television, the art of message management has been increasingly vital to the modern presidency. These days, presidential
administrations have a love-hate relationship with the media. Presidents and their staff understand that the media is of vital importance in efforts to reach the public with their agendas. But
the problem is that media can be biased either toward or against a President in terms of media coverage. This is not to suggest that media bias is blatant (unless
one is talking about Fox News Corp. or MSMBC, of course). Then there is the concept of "paid journalism," in other words, when
Administrations pay journalists to write stories (and produce reports) that have favorable biases toward a presidential agenda. This is nothing new - but the Bush Administration seems to be getting
the brunt of attacks over the use of "paid journalism" for everything from the No Child Left Behind Act to the change in Medicare coverage.
Jukes (2002) notes that the job of government spin isnt anything new; controlling information is an old activity, but the difference is that, thanks to technology, controlling what
information is wanted out there has become that much more difficult. But few issues have caused as much outrage as how the
war in Iraq has been covered by the general media. In fact, the media has come under fire in reporting the war in Iraq, both in failing to question President
George W. Bushs administration and its motives for entering into the war in the first place, and in reporting the actual war itself. Williams questioned during the summer of 2008
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