Mass media, mass propaganda : examining American news in the "War on terror" / Anthony R. Dimaggio.

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Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008.
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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.