ABSTRACT
One of the central premises of this study has been that news arises from newsworkers, their sources, and the interactions between the two. This chapter builds on that premise, by drawing together some of the key findings from the ‘empirical’ chapters that make up Part II of this book. First, I wish to explore questions of how the ethos of ‘impartiality’ in
journalism influenced the way the local press engaged with the controversy surrounding the Iraq crisis, and particularly how journalists’ take on impartiality related to the legitimacy of the anti-war movement. Second, I shall explore how far the resulting coverage could be said to have met the media orientated communicative objectives of the movement, namely ‘event promotion’, ‘frame promotion’, and ‘profile promotion’.
