Tell me lies : propaganda and media distortion in the attack on Iraq /
edited by David Miller.
- x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
THE MEDIA WAR -- A great betrayal / The lies of old / The case for civil disobedience / Crime against humanity / The unthinkable is becoming normal / PROPAGANDA WAR -- War is sell / Braincrubbing : the failures of US public diplomacy after 9-11 / Misreporting war has a long history / Psychological warfare against the public : Iraq and beyond / The progaganda machine / History or bunkum? / Spies and lies / No blood for oil? / MISREPORTING WAR -- The minute it's made up, you'll hear about it / Reporting the war on British television / 9-11, spectacles of terror, and media manipulation / 'Look, I'm an American' / 'Let the atrocious images haunt us' / Normalising godfatherly aggression / Little Ali and other rescued children / Watchdogs and lapdogs? Media, politics and regulation: the US experience / The BBC : a personal account / Mass deception : how the media helped the government deceive the people / Converting the Middle East / Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story / Black holes of history : public understanding and the shaping of our past / ALTERNATIVES -- Al Jazeera's war / Target the media / Turning my back on the mainstream / Inside the system : anti-war activism in the media / Disruptive technology : Iraq and the internet / The ani-war movement / John Pilger - John Pilger - John Pilger - John Pilger - John Pilger -- Laura Miller, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton - Nancy Snow - Des Freedman - Mark Curtis - David Miller - Phillip Knightley - Stephen Dorril - Andy Rowell -- Mark Steel - Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes - Douglas Kellner - Norman Solomon - Julian Petley - Edward Herman - Patricia Holland - Granville Williams - Abdul Hadi Jiad - David Edwards and David Cromwell - an interview with Robert Fisk - Tim Llewellyn - Greg Philo and Maureen Gilmour -- Faisal Bodi - Tim Gopsill - Yvonne Ridley - David Crouch - Alistair Alexander - an interview with Noam Chomsky. Pt. 1 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt.2 Pt. 2 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Pt. 3 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Pt. 4 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
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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