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dc.contributor.authorDodson, Giles
dc.date.accessioned2011-04-04T23:28:03Z
dc.date.available2011-04-04T23:28:03Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.issn1461-670X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10652/1507
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an original study of Australian journalistic professionalism as observed during the Iraq War, 2003. Through an analysis of both in-depth interviews conducted with Australian Iraq War journalists and news discourse produced by Australian journalists at Central Command and ‘embedded’ during the Iraq war, it is argued that professionalism provides the framework of intelligibility used by war journalists to produce accounts of war. Professionalism also serves as a ‘regime of truth’, through which the centrality of professional norms in journalism are articulated. The paper then demonstrates that professionalism, however, serves to justify and legitimate journalistic practice and meaning construction while obscuring the co-opted, functional role played by journalism within contemporary war administration and military strategy. Drawing on discourse analytic concepts, this paper argues professionalism operates as a form of ‘ideological fantasy’, which both militarises journalism and conversely journalises the military.en_NZ
dc.language.isoenen_NZ
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1461%2d670X&volume=11&issue=1&spage=99en_NZ
dc.rightsAll rights reserveden_NZ
dc.subjectAustralian war journalismen_NZ
dc.subjectdiscourseen_NZ
dc.subjectideologyen_NZ
dc.subjectIraq waren_NZ
dc.subjectmilitary-media relationsen_NZ
dc.subjectprofessionalismen_NZ
dc.titleAustralian journalism and war: Professional discourse and the legitimation of the 2003 Iraq invasionen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.rights.holderTaylor & Francisen_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14616700903119768en_NZ
dc.subject.marsden200104 Media Studiesen_NZ
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationDodson, G. (2010). Australian journalism and war: Professional discourse and the legitimation of the 2003 Iraq invasion. Journalism Studies, 11(1), 99-114.en_NZ
unitec.institutionUnitec Institute of Technologyen_NZ
unitec.publication.spage99en_NZ
unitec.publication.lpage114en_NZ
unitec.publication.volume11en_NZ
unitec.publication.titleJournalism Studiesen_NZ
unitec.peerreviewedyesen_NZ
unitec.identifier.roms53054
unitec.institution.studyareaCommunication Studies


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