Tell Me Lies : Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes on contributors -- Index.

Cuts through the propaganda of the media's coverage of Iraq.

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