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About Me:: Co-Editor of the Irish based media monitoring organisation MediaBite. The aim of MediaBite is to highlight the omissions and distortions of the mainstream media in news reporting. We are concerned with the impact of commercial and state influences on the content and style of news reported. We don't contend that reporters are deliberately misleading readers, but rather that due to the construct of the corporate media they are either powerless or unwilling to hold concentrations of power to account. MediaBite is a not-for-profit organisation.

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The US as 'prisoners' in Iraq

A recent analysis titled 'No end in sight as US forced to dig in for long haul in Iraq' in Ireland's paper of record The Irish Times by the respected Middle East commentator and reporter Lara Marlowe used the metaphor of the US as 'prisoners' in Iraq.

The word 'prisoner' is a frame that evokes any number of images and while I'm no expert on semantics, the metaphor of America as a 'prisoner' in/of Iraq, and in this case an important distinction a 'prisoner o…

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Posted by David Manning on May 27th, 2008 at 6:29pm — No Comments (Add)