Description
Book SynopsisExamines how the media interprets contemporary conflicts and international interventions. It compares British press coverage across six different crises (Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), examining how conflict is explained and how far Western military intervention is represented as justifiable and necessary.
Trade Review'Shows via compelling empirical data and analyses that the United Kingdom’s print media have systematically framed post-Cold war conflicts in ways that put their own governments and leaders in a favorable light. As these conflicts have almost invariably involved invading other and weaker countries, officials readily assume rights of aggression and a world of sovereign inequality; and so do the mainstream media. This is a valuable contribution both to media studies and the modalities of conflict in the age of “humanitarian intervention.” '
Edward S. Herman, Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and co-author with Noam Chomsky of Manufacturing Consent and The Political Economy of Human Rights
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Tables and charts
1. Introduction: post-Cold War conflicts and the media
2. Somalia, 1992–94
3. Bosnia, 1992–95
4. Rwanda, 1994
5. Kosovo, 1999
6. Afghanistan, 2001
7. Iraq, 2003
8. Conclusions: framing post-Cold War conflicts
Notes
References
Index
