Tell Me Lies Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq 1st Edition by David Miller, Mark Thomas 9780745322025 0745322026

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ISBN 10: 0745322026

ISBN 13: 9780745322025

Author: David Miller, Mark Thomas

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 ‘threat’ 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 world’s leading journalists and commentators, it’s 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.

Contributors include John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Edward Herman, Mark Thomas, Mark Steel, and cartoonist Steve Bell amongst many others.

Table of contents:

Part I: The Media War

1. A great betrayal

2. The lies of old

3. The case for civil disobedience

4. Crime against humanity

5. The unthinkable is becoming normal

Part II: Propaganda Wars

6. War is sell

7. Brainscrubbing: the failures of US public diplomacy after 9/ 11

8. Misreporting war has a long history

9. Psychological warfare against the public: Iraq and beyond

10. The propaganda machine

11. History or bunkum?

12. Spies and lies

13. No blood for oil?

Part III: Misreporting War

14. The minute it’s made up, you’ll hear about it

15. Reporting the war on British television

16. 9/ 11, spectacles of terror, and media manipulation

17. Look, I’m an American

18. Let the atrocious images haunt us

19. Normalising godfatherly aggression

20. Little Ali and other rescued children

21. Watchdogs or lapdogs? Media, politics and regulation: the US experience

22. The BBC: a personal account

23. Mass deception: how the media helped the government deceive the people

24. Covering the Middle East

25. Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story

26. Black holes of history: public understanding and the shaping of our past

Part IV: Alternatives

27. Al Jazeera’s war

28. Target the media

29. Turning my back on the mainstream

30. Inside the system: anti- war activism in the media

31. Disruptive technology: Iraq and the internet

32. The anti- war movement

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