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Ideological viewpoint
Our answer for task B [2]
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We have
Army, Navy and Air Force
Reporting guidelines
Press briefings
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They have
A war machine
Censorship
Propaganda
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Here we can see that the items in the first column (which the British
side have) seem neutral, whereas the term for the equivalent referent
on the Iraqi side has obvious negative connotations in each case. This
is clearly the contrasting lexical behaviour in the (mainly) tabloid press
that the Guardian writer is 'critiquing'. The (correct) implication
is that the British press was selecting lexical items to put the opposing
side in as bad a light as possible.
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