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Rune Ottosen, Tore Slaatta & Sigurd Øfsti This paper reports from a research project on how selected Norwegian newspapers covered the NATO-led military engagement in Libya in 2011. As a backdrop we build on earlier research on the role between the media and security policy which had found that in times of war the media in general support the government. We analyze Norwegian newspaper's ability to present, discuss and express opinions on the principal political and legal questions concerning international military interventions in general and Norwegian participation in the NATO-led operations in Libya 2011 in particular Our findings is that legal issues are underreported but that the left wing press and niche newspapers offer a critical opposition to the government policy and the NATO-operation. |
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Tore Slaatta is professor and Dr.polit. at the Department of Media and Communication, at the University of Oslo, and has since the 1990s been working on research concerning European public sphere and the role of transnational journalism, and financial journalism in the Nordic countries (with Peter Kjær, 2005). Slaatta directed research on media power within the Norwegian Power and Democracy Program (Makt- og demokratiutredningen), observing among other things, the increasing importance of digital media (Digital makt 2002) and recent developments within Norwegian journalism and media institutions (Den norske medieorden, 2003) in a field analytical perspective. More Recent research interests are concerned with the field of cultural production and the relationships between art, cultural politics and the cultural industries. Sigurd Øfsti has studied media science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and at Lillehammer University College. In 2009 he started a masters degree in journalism at the University of Oslo and in 2011 he completed his studies delivering a thesis on how Norwegian journalists use the microblogging service Twitter. Aside his studies he has been working in the local Norwegian newspapers "Drammens Tidende" and "Moss Avis". After finishing his master degree he worked as a scientific assistant, and since 2011 he has been working as a polticial journalist in the local Norwegian newspaper"Smaalenenes Avis". |
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