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.
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