Degraded capability : the media and the Kosovo crisis / edited by Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman. - x, 222 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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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Kosovo War, 1998-1999
Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Mass media and the war
Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Press coverage
Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Propaganda

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