Thread by @I_Katchanovski

"The evening news programs of the three dominant U.S. television networks devoted more coverage to the war in Ukraine last month than in any other month during all wars, including those in which the U.S. military was directly engaged, since the 1991..." 1/
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"... Gulf War against Iraq, according to the authoritative Tyndall Report. The only exception was the last war in which U.S. forces participated in Europe, the 1999 Kosovo campaign." 2/

"Combined, the three networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — devoted 562 minutes to the first full month of the war in Ukraine. That was more time than in the first month of its invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001 (306 minutes)." #UkraineWar #Ukraine #Russia 3/

“Astonishingly, the two peak months of coverage of the [2003] Iraq war each saw less saturated coverage than last month in Ukraine.” Coverage of Ukraine even eclipsed by a wide margin the three networks’ coverage of the chaotic end of Washington’s 20-year war in Afghanistan." 4/

Coverage of #UkraineWar by 3 main US TV networks is consistent with my content analysis of politics of their coverage of #Ukraine, #Russia & other post-Soviet countries, in particular, wars in these countries. I call such coverage "virtual reality." 5/
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"While the major cable news networks often receive more public attention, the evening news shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC collectively remain the single most important source of international news in the United States. On weekday evenings, an..." 6/

"average of some 20 million U.S. viewers tune in to national news programs on one or more of the three networks. That’s roughly four times the number of people who rely on the major cable stations — Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN — for their news during prime time." #Ukraine #Russia 7/

US #media coverage of #UkraineWar is manifestation of indexing theory. Coverage reflects government narratives & is not much concerned with evidence & expertise of scholars who research this issue. 8/ #Ukraine #Russia #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussianWar oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/…