The 2003 war in Iraq was a major media event which led to (and continues to stimulate) a series of controversial issues. One of those issues was the role of the embedded reporter who became a key figure in television coverage, accompanied by claims of ‘selling-out’ to the Pentagon. Did embeds consciously, or unconsciously, project the coalition’s perspective? One way of approaching this question is by means of the relatively new methodology of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). This short paper explores the possibilities of CADS as a research tool and how it can be applied to a research question.
A CADS analysis of television reports from Iraq: were embeds ˜in bed" with the coalition?
CLARK, CAROLINE MARY DE BOHUN
2008
Abstract
The 2003 war in Iraq was a major media event which led to (and continues to stimulate) a series of controversial issues. One of those issues was the role of the embedded reporter who became a key figure in television coverage, accompanied by claims of ‘selling-out’ to the Pentagon. Did embeds consciously, or unconsciously, project the coalition’s perspective? One way of approaching this question is by means of the relatively new methodology of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). This short paper explores the possibilities of CADS as a research tool and how it can be applied to a research question.
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