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Feminising reporting of the war in Afghanistan
Lynch, Jake McGoldrick, Annabel Adnan, Indra
Lynch, Jake
McGoldrick, Annabel
Adnan, Indra
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"The present authors describe the picture thus constructed as a ‘tug-of-war’, in which ‘anything that is not, unequivocally, winning, risks being interpreted – and reported – as losing’viii. Each party thus acquires a readymade interest in escalating the conflict – trying harder to win – since the only alternative is defeat. Escalation is justified by recourse to propaganda, demonising and dehumanising the ‘other’. War journalism focuses on ‘the suffering of ‘our’ side, [especially] able-bodied white males’, Galtung continues, at the expense of hiding the human cost of organised violence, both physical and psychological."
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2010-01
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