Abstract:
The reporting of war has always been a tough challenge for journalists. Restricted access
to information, lack of consensus about journalists' role during wartime and the process of
news production make the task daunting. The media's vulnerability is manifested in the
pattern of war coverage, which is directly related to a country's historic, social and cultural
perspectives. This content analysis of the 2003 Iraq war coverage in the Bangladesh press
shows that, despite the publications' dependence on Western sources for war news, they
rejected the Western definition of the war and echoed the opposing version of it harboured
by the country's elite.
