Mass media, mass propaganda : examining American news in the "War on terror" / Anthony R. Dimaggio.
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Lanham, MD :
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Understanding the news in the "war on terror"
- 1. Public trust, media, and the "war on terror"
- 2. All the news that's fit to omit : a background to pro-war media
- 3. Weapons of mass diversion / Anthony DiMaggio and Paul Fasse
- 4. The media's war
- 5. Railing Iraqi resistance : "insurgency," militias, and the unfolding civil war
- 6. Free speech fatalities
- 7. A world of Orwellian doublethink
- 8. Doctrines of media and state : hailing humanitarianism, dismissing disaster
- 9. Catapult the media
- 10. Afghanistan and 9/11 : the "war on terror" declared
- 11. A game plan for infinite war?
- Conclusion. Progressive media reform : a movement for the 21st century.