Media coverage of third party peace initiatives
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Media coverage of third party peace initiatives [1] a case of peace journalism? Inhalt 1. Media and conflict escalation 1 2. Media coverage of alternative ways to settle the Gulf War 2 2.1 Method 2 2.2 Empirical results 5 3. Limitations of quantitative analysis 7 4. Media coverage of third party peace initiatives 8 4.1 Method 8 Though the coverage of alternatives to violence can be regarded as a minimum requirement for peace journalism, it is not just the facts which are reported but rather the way they are presented which contributes to the escalation or deescalation of the conflict. An interdisciplinary and multinational content analytical study of the Gulf War coverage in American and European media has shown that alternative ways to settle the Gulf War were among those themes that were discussed most extensively in the media. Statistical data analysis based on Latent Class Analysis revealed a total of 9 latent styles of the media coverage of this topic: Pure military logic, query of military logic, economic rather than military means, coverage of Iraqi peace initiatives, UN peace initiatives, Allied initiatives, third party initiatives, query of third party initiatives, and comprehensive discussion of Konstanzer Online-Publikations-System (KOPS)
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