Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq
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Book Description
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. Written by some of the world's leading journalists and commentators, it's a scathing indictment of the media's role in creating public support for a war which, day by day, is taking a heavy toll in coalition and Iraqi lives, and which threatens to create further instability and resentment of the US throughout the Middle East.
Critics, activists and journalists from both sides of the Atlantic destroy the idea that the mainstream media have anything to do with objectivity and balance. The propaganda machinery of the UK and US in the Iraq war is exposed as fundamentally dishonest and as a significant threat to freedom of thought and expression.
The book draws on the experience of leading anti-war and media activists to provide analysis and guidance on how to resist the media war.
Contributors include John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Edward Herman, Mark Thomas, Mark Steel, Phillip Knightley, Tim Llewelyn (BBC Middle East Correspondent), Abdul Hadi Jiad (Iraqi journalist sacked by the BBC before the war), David Cromwell and David Edwards (Media Lens), Mark Curtis, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton (PR Watch, and co-authors of Weapons of Mass Deception and Toxic Sludge is Good For You), Pat Holland, Norman Solomon (columnist and director of the Institute for Public Accuracy), Nancy Snow (California State University, Fullerton, author of Propaganda Inc. and Information War), Doug Kellner (UCLA), Julian Petley, Yvonne Ridley (Aljazeera.net and author of In the Hands of the Taliban), Tim Gopsill (Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom), Faisal Bodi (UK Guardian, Aljazeera.net), Alistair Alexander (Stop the War Coalition), Greg Philo (Glasgow University Media Group), Steve Dorrill, Andy Rowell, Granville Williams and cartoonists Steve Bell, Steve Caplin and Polyp.
About the Author
David Miller is a reader at the Stirling Media Research Institute. His research interests include political communication, the media and violence, media effects and influences and science, risk and the media. He is author of Don't Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media (Pluto, 1994), The Circuit of Mass Communication: Media Strategies, Representation and Audience Reception in the AIDS Crisis (Sage, 1998 ), Market Killing: What Capitalism Does and What Social Scientists Can do about it (Longman, 2000, with Greg Philo)
Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq,David Miller,Pluto Press,0745322018,Great Britain,Iraq War, 2003,Iraq War, 2003-,Mass media and the war,Media Studies,Military - Iraq War,Political Freedom & Security - International Secur,Political Science,Politics / Current Events,Politics/International Relations,Press coverage,Propaganda,Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -,Battles & campaigns,Iraq,Political Science / International Security,Political activism
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