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Author Dadge, David.

Title The war in Iraq and why the media failed us / David Dadge ; foreword by Danny Schechter.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  070.4499567 D124w 2006    ---  Available
Description xiii, 193 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-181) and index.
Contents The road to awe -- "I have here in my hand ..." -- I'll show you fear in a mushroom cloud -- Drawing water from the poisoned well -- When president bites watchdog -- Leapfrogging the mainstream media -- You don't speak for them! -- The media's fight for greater access to information -- Blocking access to information -- The arm's length principle -- The September 11 attacks and their impact on dissent -- Law and the media -- Prior restraint and the Pentagon papers case -- Rolling back the critical media's influence in wartime -- All quiet on the home front -- Al-Jazeera's plummeting stock -- Dissent: a decidedly un-American expression -- "Darkened self-interest": flying the flag and rallying behind the war -- "Hooray for hollywood": the climate of fear and the anti-war celebrities -- The Iraq War and the rescission of the right to free speech -- The prison, the general and the flexible broadcaster -- A question of attribution? -- "Two weeks ago 60 minutes received an appeal ..." -- Media on the march (with the Bush administration) -- CBS - a betrayal of news values? -- Concentrating on bias -- De-railing the news -- Saving [the media from] private lynch -- Bias: a matter of perspective -- Who's sorry now! -- Mea pulpa -- Shining the light -- Hold the front (or perhaps the middle) page -- Follow the "leader" -- Tracing the apology arc -- Reintroducing the skeptic's test -- The journalist as skeptic -- What if the government held a background briefing and no one came! -- Off the record, but in the paper -- Verification, verification, verification -- Developing editorial vigilance and independence -- Ignoring the patriotic background noise! -- Slowing down the media organization's "metabolism!" -- What's wrong with saying, "we don't know?"
Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Press coverage -- United States.
Added Author Schechter, Danny.
ISBN 0275987663 (alk. paper)
9780275987664 (alk. paper)
Standard No. IG# 0275987663
YDXCP 2399980
NLGGC 294405135
AU@ 000040239451
NZ1 10782651

 
    
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