British news reportage during the Libyan revolution

Abstract

The interpretation of the Libyan Revolution in news reports has received scant attention. The overarching objective of this thesis is unavoidably to investigate orally how British journalism was used to fabricate the 2011 Libyan Revolution. The main goal of this research is to gather the necessary data to prove and confirm that British journalists were biased against Gaddafi's military because of their race in their reporting. Materials and techniques based on substance principles served as the direction and backbone for the research on textual criticism. The result of the fabricated research is that action-correlated talk and allusions to the allies fighting in the Libyan Revolt are the most bombastic elements in the formation of the Libyan Revolt in British media. These creative results are also unquestionably examined using Word Smith's concord operation, subsequently rewritten employing critical stylistic material (Jeffries, 2010). This study demonstrates rhetorical evidence and exaggerated strategies for airing a one-sided picture of the Libyan Revolt in support of the contra-Gaddafi regime in the British media. This shows that the UK broadsheet media have presented an unbiased and sometimes even clear definition of the oppositionists while simultaneously exhibiting a contradictory dullness toward Gaddafi. The decisions made by the rhetorical network, in particular, led to legitimacy concerning Gaddafi's enemies, instead of dehumanization along with the regime’s destruction. This dissertation concludes with the author’s views and findings. It was also noted that British media discourse, despite promoting the ideals of democracy, liberty, and human rights on its platforms, was very political in how it defined this event.