%0 Journal Article
%T Georgia & Russia: Contradictory Media Coverage of the August War
%A Hans-Georg Heinrich & Kirill Tanaev
%J Caucasian Review of International Affairs
%D 2009
%I 
%X This paper reports on an ongoing media research project that examines the coverage of the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008, in selected Russian, Georgian, and Western print media. Using computer-assisted content analysis, it presents evidence that print outlets display distinct patterns of either balanced reporting or partisan attitudes, which also vary over time. The effects of possible ˇ°spinˇ± in independent print media have remained marginal and ephemeral. At least as far as US media are concerned, this could be the result of soul-searching following the war on Iraq.
%K Georgia
%K Russia
%K media coverage
%K South Ossetia
%K computer-assisted content analysis
%U http://cria-online.org/8_2.html