Degraded capability : the media and the Kosovo crisis / edited by Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Harold Pinter -- Introduction / Philip Hammond, Edward S. Herman -- Nato and the new world order : ideals and self-interest / Diana Johnstone -- Western intervention and the disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1989-1999 / David Chandler -- War crimes / Mirjana Skoco, William Woodger -- The war and its aftermath / Peter Gowan -- New militarism and the manufacture of warfare / Richard Keeble -- Nazifying the Serbs, from Bosnia to Kosovo / Mick Hume -- The military and the media / Mirjana Skoco, William Woodger -- Symbolic warfare : Nato versus the Serbian media / Goran Gocic -- Following Washington's script : the United States media and Kosovo / Seth Ackerman, Jim Naureckas -- CNN : selling Nato's war globally / Edward S. Herman, David Peterson -- Third way war : new Labour, the British media and Kosovo / Philip Hammond -- Censorship by omission / John Pilger -- The French media and the Kosovo war / Diana Johnstone -- From 'never again war' to 'never again Auschwitz' : dilemmas of German media policy in the war against Yugoslavia / Thomas Deichmann -- "Thank you God! Thank you Norway!' Norwegian newspapers and the Kosovo war / Karin Trandheim Ren -- The Greek 'participation' in Kosovo / Nikos Raptis -- Consensus and conflict in the Russian press / Philip Hammond, Lilia Nizamova, Irina Savelieva -- India : how India sees through Western reports / Raju G.C. Thomas -- An Indian view of the Western media from Iraq to Yugoslavia / Siddharth Varadarajan -- Conclusions : first casualty and beyond / Philip Hammond, Edward S. Herman.

A number of distinguished international contributors critically interpret Western policy toward the former Yugoslavia and offer an analysis of media coverage of the Kosovo crisis and war in which truth became a fragile commodity on both sides.

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