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Book SynopsisCuts through the propaganda of the media's coverage of Iraq
Trade Review'If you suspect that the media have not told you the full truth about the Iraq War, read this book. It is a revelation' -- Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths College, University of London
'Often entertaining and always informative ... challenges journalists to look closely at the role we play in reporting war' -- Tim Lezard, The Journalist
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Foreword by Mark Thomas
Introduction by David Miller
Part 1 The Media War
1. A great betrayal by John Pilger
2. The lies of old by John Pilger
3. The case for civil disobedience by John Pilger
4. Crime against humanity by John Pilger
5. The unthinkable is becoming normal by John Pilger
Part 2 Propaganda Wars
6. War is sell by Laura Miller, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton 7. Brainscrubbing: The Failures of U.S. Public Diplomacy After 9/11 by Nancy Snow
8. Misreporting war has a long history by Des Freedman
9. Psychological warfare against the public: Iraq and
beyond by Mark Curtis
10. The Propaganda Machine by David Miller
11. History or bunkum? by Philip Knightley
12. Spies and lies by Stephen Dorril
13. No Blood for oil? by Andy Rowell
Part 3 Misreporting war
14. The minute it’s made up, you’ll hear about it by Mark Steel
15. Reporting the war on British television by Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes
16. 9/11, Spectacles of Terror, and Media Manipulation by Doug Kellner
17. 'Look, I'm An American' by Norman Solomon
18. 'Let the Atrocious Images Haunt Us' by Julian Petley
19. Normalising aggression by Ed Herman
20. Little Ali and other rescued children by Patricia Holland
21. Watchdogs or Lapdogs? by Granville Williams
22. The BBC: A personal account by Abdul Hadi Jiad
23. Mass Deception: How The Media Helped The Government Deceive The People by David Cromwell & David Edwards
24. Covering the Middle East by Robert Fisk
25. Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story by Tim Llewellyn
26. Black holes of history by Greg Philo and Maureen Gilmour
Part 4 Alternatives
27. Al Jazeera's war by Faisal Bodi
28. Target the media by Tim Gopsill
29. Turning my back on the mainstream by Yvonne Ridley
30. Working in and against the system by David Crouch
31. Disruptive Technology: Iraq and the Internet by Alistair Alexander
32. The anti-war movement by Noam Chomsky
