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- Title
More of the Same Old Story? Women, War, and News in Time Magazine.
- Authors
Harp, Dustin; Loke, Jaime; Bachmann, Ingrid
- Abstract
From a feminist standpoint, this study provides an updated analysis to the age-old subject of women and war reporting. A content analysis of 406 stories from Time magazine explores the intersection of U.S. war reporting and gender in the coverage of the U.S. war in Iraq. Relying on feminist theories, this research dissected the normative method of war coverage to emphasize the reality of women's silence. The results demonstrated that women's perspectives—from official sources to private civilians' voices—are still scarce in war reporting. Women also accounted for only a fifth of the bylines and were mostly quoted as private individuals—representing less than a tenth of the subjects cited. The data showed that women, when it comes to war, are still symbolically annihilated through omission. Feminist ethics must be integrated into journalists' work to rectify the masculine perspectives and viewpoints found in war coverage.
- Subjects
WAR in the press; WOMEN &; journalism; CONTENT analysis; TIME (Periodical); IRAQ War, 2003-2011; GENDER; FEMINIST theory; FEMINIST ethics
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 2, p202
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2011.619470