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Tell me lies : propaganda and media distortion in the attack on Iraq / edited by David Miller.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto, 2004Description: x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745322026
  • 9780745322025
  • 0745322018
  • 9780745322018
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.70443 22
LOC classification:
  • DS79.76 .T454 2004
Contents:
Pt. 1 THE MEDIA WAR -- 1. A great betrayal / John Pilger - 2. The lies of old / John Pilger - 3. The case for civil disobedience / John Pilger - 4. Crime against humanity / John Pilger - 5. The unthinkable is becoming normal / John Pilger -- Pt.2 PROPAGANDA WAR -- Pt. 2 War is sell / Laura Miller, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton - 7. Braincrubbing : the failures of US public diplomacy after 9-11 / Nancy Snow - 8. Misreporting war has a long history / Des Freedman - 9. Psychological warfare against the public : Iraq and beyond / Mark Curtis - 10. The progaganda machine / David Miller - 11. History or bunkum? / Phillip Knightley - 12. Spies and lies / Stephen Dorril - 13. No blood for oil? / Andy Rowell -- Pt. 3 MISREPORTING WAR -- 14. The minute it's made up, you'll hear about it / Mark Steel - 15. Reporting the war on British television / Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes - 16. 9-11, spectacles of terror, and media manipulation / Douglas Kellner - 17. 'Look, I'm an American' / Norman Solomon - 18. 'Let the atrocious images haunt us' / Julian Petley - 19. Normalising godfatherly aggression / Edward Herman - 20. Little Ali and other rescued children / Patricia Holland - 21. Watchdogs and lapdogs? Media, politics and regulation: the US experience / Granville Williams - 22. The BBC : a personal account / Abdul Hadi Jiad - 23. Mass deception : how the media helped the government deceive the people / David Edwards and David Cromwell - 24. Converting the Middle East / an interview with Robert Fisk - 25. Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story / Tim Llewellyn - 26. Black holes of history : public understanding and the shaping of our past / Greg Philo and Maureen Gilmour -- Pt. 4 ALTERNATIVES -- 27. Al Jazeera's war / Faisal Bodi - 28. Target the media / Tim Gopsill - 29. Turning my back on the mainstream / Yvonne Ridley - 30. Inside the system : anti-war activism in the media / David Crouch - 31. Disruptive technology : Iraq and the internet / Alistair Alexander - 32. The ani-war movement / an interview with Noam Chomsky.
Summary: What did the media tell us in the run up to war on Iraq? Was it all true? Where are the weapons of mass destruction? This book is for everyone who is appalled by the duplicity and misinformation churned out by the media in the lead up to war with Iraq, and in its long and continuing aftermath.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1 THE MEDIA WAR -- 1. A great betrayal / John Pilger - 2. The lies of old / John Pilger - 3. The case for civil disobedience / John Pilger - 4. Crime against humanity / John Pilger - 5. The unthinkable is becoming normal / John Pilger -- Pt.2 PROPAGANDA WAR -- Pt. 2 War is sell / Laura Miller, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton - 7. Braincrubbing : the failures of US public diplomacy after 9-11 / Nancy Snow - 8. Misreporting war has a long history / Des Freedman - 9. Psychological warfare against the public : Iraq and beyond / Mark Curtis - 10. The progaganda machine / David Miller - 11. History or bunkum? / Phillip Knightley - 12. Spies and lies / Stephen Dorril - 13. No blood for oil? / Andy Rowell -- Pt. 3 MISREPORTING WAR -- 14. The minute it's made up, you'll hear about it / Mark Steel - 15. Reporting the war on British television / Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes - 16. 9-11, spectacles of terror, and media manipulation / Douglas Kellner - 17. 'Look, I'm an American' / Norman Solomon - 18. 'Let the atrocious images haunt us' / Julian Petley - 19. Normalising godfatherly aggression / Edward Herman - 20. Little Ali and other rescued children / Patricia Holland - 21. Watchdogs and lapdogs? Media, politics and regulation: the US experience / Granville Williams - 22. The BBC : a personal account / Abdul Hadi Jiad - 23. Mass deception : how the media helped the government deceive the people / David Edwards and David Cromwell - 24. Converting the Middle East / an interview with Robert Fisk - 25. Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story / Tim Llewellyn - 26. Black holes of history : public understanding and the shaping of our past / Greg Philo and Maureen Gilmour -- Pt. 4 ALTERNATIVES -- 27. Al Jazeera's war / Faisal Bodi - 28. Target the media / Tim Gopsill - 29. Turning my back on the mainstream / Yvonne Ridley - 30. Inside the system : anti-war activism in the media / David Crouch - 31. Disruptive technology : Iraq and the internet / Alistair Alexander - 32. The ani-war movement / an interview with Noam Chomsky.

What did the media tell us in the run up to war on Iraq? Was it all true? Where are the weapons of mass destruction? This book is for everyone who is appalled by the duplicity and misinformation churned out by the media in the lead up to war with Iraq, and in its long and continuing aftermath.

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