[eccr] Book: Tell Me Lies - Propaganda & Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq

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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.¹ 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 Rthreat¹ 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 world¹s 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.

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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 it¹s made up, you¹ll 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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