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Tell Me Lies
Propaganda & Media Distortion
in the Attack on Iraq
Edited by David Miller
If you suspect that the media have not told you the full truth about the Iraq War, read this book. It is a revelation.ı James Curran, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Did the US and UK governments lie about weapons of mass destruction to promote an attack on Iraq? Did the media hold them to account or act as cheerleaders for war?
Tell Me Lies reveals the systematic propaganda used by both the US and UK governments to convince us of the threatı from Iraq. It shows how we were deliberately misled into a war that has resulted in a humanitarian disaster in Iraq and threatens to create further instability and resentment of the US and UK throughout the Middle East.
Written by some of the worldıs leading journalists and commentators, Tell Me Lies is a scathing indictment of the role of the mainstream media in legitimising government actions and undermining dissent. Critics, activists and journalists from both sides of the Atlantic explore alternatives such as the internet and al-Jazeera and provide analysis and guidance on resisting the media war. David Miller
David Miller is a member of the Stirling Media Research Institute. His books include Don't Mention the War: Northern Ireland, Propaganda and the Media (Pluto, 1994), The Circuit of Mass Communication: Media Strategies, Representation and Audience Reception in the AIDS Crisis (Sage, 1998, co-author), Market Killing: What Capitalism Does and What Social Scientists Can do about it (Longman, 2001, co-author) and Open Scotland?: Lobbyists, Journalists and Spin Doctors (Polygon, 2001, co-author). He is currently writing a book on global public relations and corporate power.
2003 / 208pp / 215x135mm
Pb / £12.99 / 0 7453 2201 8 Order now for the discount price of just £11.00
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Mark Thomas
Introduction by David Miller
Part 1 The Media War
John Pilger - A great betrayal, The lies of old, The case for civil disobedience, Crime against humanity,
The unthinkable is becoming normal
Part 2 Propaganda Wars
Laura Miller, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton - War is sell
Nancy Snow - Brainscrubbing: The Failures of U.S. Public Diplomacy After 9/11
Des Freedman - Misreporting war has a long historY
Mark Curtis - Psychological warfare against the public: Iraq and beyond
David Miller - The Propaganda Machine
Philip Knightley - History or bunkum?
Stephen Dorril - Spies and lies
Andy Rowell, - No Blood for oil?
Part 3 Misreporting war
Mark Steel - The minute itıs made up, youıll hear about it.
Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes - Reporting the war on British television
Doug Kellner - 9/11, Spectacles of Terror, and Media Manipulation
Norman Solomon - 'Look, I'm An American'
Julian Petley - 'Let the Atrocious Images Haunt Us'
Ed Herman - Normalising aggression
Patricia Holland - Little Ali and other rescued children
Granville Williams - Watchdogs or Lapdogs?
Abdul Hadi Jiad - The BBC: A personal account
David Cromwell & David Edwards Mass Deception:
How The Media Helped The Government Deceive The People
Robert Fisk - Covering the Middle East
Tim Llewellyn - Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story
Greg Philo and Maureen Gilmour - Black holes of history
Part 4 Alternatives
Faisal Bodi - Al Jazeera's war
Tim Gopsill - Target the media
Yvonne Ridley - Turning my back on the mainstream
David Crouch - Working in and against the system
Alistair Alexander - Disruptive Technology: Iraq and the Internet
Noam Chomsky - The anti-war movement
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