The Iraq War  

Posted by Jessica

I am currently enrolled in a doctoral level seminar class-American Political Behavior. We are spending the semester writing a paper and every few weeks turn in certain parts of the paper. I decided to study the Iraq War, surprise surprise.

What I will look at in my paper is the interplay between the media's coverage of the war and the declining support for the war. I think I might also include certain "milestones" and see if reaching these milestones had any effect on the public's support for the war.

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I am open to hearing from you. I want this paper to be good enough to publish!

2 comments

Cameron   says February 6, 2007 at 1:58 PM

Very interesting. I would be interested in reading it, if you don't mind. Are you focusing on the role that media has played in the general public support of the war?

Jessica   says February 6, 2007 at 3:03 PM

I am looking at the Chicago Tribune and NYT and seeing how much they wrote about the war from 2003-2006. I take headlines which include "Iraq war" and then code them into positive, negative, and neutral/indistinguishable. Then I am going to look at public opinion and see if there is any connection.

I might also take milestones in the war (500 dead American soldiers, 1000, 1500, etc) and I will see if media coverage changed and/or public opinion.

This isn't all set in stone, but this is what I am leaning towards. Also just doing a basic comparison between a "liberal"/NYT and "conservative"/CT paper and how much of their coverage is positive, negative, etc...

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