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Dissertation Student Needs Your Help!

Toby B | 24.11.2003 16:45 | Culture | Indymedia | Social Struggles

Request for assistance in sourcing archive material (News broadcasts) for paper on "independent media's role in the representation of global and individual truth's"

Dear Indymedia crew,

Hi, i am a 4th year visual culture student, writing my dissertation on “The role of independent media in the representation of individual and global truth’s”.

For my paper, I need to compare news footage, (Newspaper, Televisual, and Independent) from the beginning of the most recent invasion of Iraq (the 4 days from: 19-23/03/03).

Can you help? Perhaps you have some recorded footage of news broadcasts that would be of great value to me. Or newspaper cuttings, from those 4 days etc… I want a broad spectrum of news sources; I will pay for any costs in copying footage.

The paper aims to firstly compare the subjective approaches of 3 mediums of information distribution, TV, Newspapers and the Web, considering issues concerned with representation, cultural identity, cultural programming, propaganda, disinformation & distraction, etc…

Secondly I intend to make a suggestion towards a better mass media solution, one that recognises independent subjective approaches, and puts ‘truth’ above commercial appeal and political standing.

Thanks for your time.
Toby Barnett.
 Corporate_slave_101@hotmail.com

Toby B
- e-mail: corporate_slave_101@hotmail.com

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Good luck..

24.11.2003 21:04

Im sorry i cant help you.. but you could just put it into 3 genres. lies, intentional lies and truth.. he he..
unless you have already tried. you should try writing the people behind www.prwatch.org

Steensvig