The Analysis Of American Media Coverage Of Iraqi War Atrocity By American Force

This is an examination of American media coverage of Haditha killings which is the most serious war crime committed by American soldiers in the Iraq War. 24 Iraqi innocents were lost in the killings, including a 2-year-old child.Attention will be given to how the story was framed, in both its emphasis and silence. Through the analysis, we find that American jounalists propagate the superiority of American value in media coverge of Haditha killings. As for the victims of American war machine, they remain unnamed, unexamined, and seemingly have no larger role in the story. Obviously, it is not a story about the dominated: the coverage excluded essential racial meaning of Haditha killings. The author argues that racisit ideology dominates the media coverage of Haditha killings by American mainstream media.Therefore, the author suggests that the killings at Haditha is rather best understood as colonial violence similar to the behavior of the Japanese in China, French in Algeria, and the British during their occupation of India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The author argues that we should be very cautious about this narrative, for it has reshaped the story of the killings to distance American themselves from confronting racialized violence that structures both Haditha killings and the imperial framework of the Iraq war.