Stuart Allan is a lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England. His books include News Culture (Open U 1999) and Media, Risk and Science. (Open U.P. 2002) He edits the series Issues in Cultural and Media Studies for Open U. P., now McGraw-Hill. He has co-edited a number of collections including News, Gender and Power (Routledge 1998), Environmental Risks and the Media (Routledge 2000) and Journalism after September 11 (with Barbie Zelizer) Routledge 2002.Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia. She is the author of several books on journalism, popular culture and coll-ective memory, and co-edited Journalism after September 11. She is a founder and co-editor of the Sage journal Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.

• Introduction; 1: Rules of Engagement; 1: War in the Twenty-First Century; 2: Understanding; 2: Information Warfare in an Age of Hyper-Militarism; 3: A Moral Imagination; 4: The PR of Terror; 5: Researching US Media–State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars 1; II: Bearing Witness; 6: When War is Reduced to a Photograph; 7: The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited; 8: Tribalism and Tribulation; 9: Humanizing War; 10: Prisoners of News Values?; 11: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?; 12: The Battlefield is the Media; III: Reporting the Iraq War; 13: Militarized Journalism; 14: War or Peace?; 15: How British Television News Represented the Case for the War in Iraq 1; 16: European News Agencies and their Sources in the Iraq War Coverage; 17: Al-Jazeera and War Coverage in Iraq; 18: Big Media and Little Media; 19: The Culture of Distance

Stuart Allan is a lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England. His books include News Culture (Open U 1999) and Media, Risk and Science. (Open U.P. 2002) He edits the series Issues in Cultural and Media Studies for Open U. P., now McGraw-Hill. He has co-edited a number of collections including News, Gender and Power (Routledge 1998), Environmental Risks and the Media (Routledge 2000) and Journalism after September 11 (with Barbie Zelizer) Routledge 2002.Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia. She is the author of several books on journalism, popular culture and coll-ective memory, and co-edited Journalism after September 11. She is a founder and co-editor of the Sage journal Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.

• Introduction; 1: Rules of Engagement; 1: War in the Twenty-First Century; 2: Understanding; 2: Information Warfare in an Age of Hyper-Militarism; 3: A Moral Imagination; 4: The PR of Terror; 5: Researching US Media–State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars 1; II: Bearing Witness; 6: When War is Reduced to a Photograph; 7: The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited; 8: Tribalism and Tribulation; 9: Humanizing War; 10: Prisoners of News Values?; 11: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?; 12: The Battlefield is the Media; III: Reporting the Iraq War; 13: Militarized Journalism; 14: War or Peace?; 15: How British Television News Represented the Case for the War in Iraq 1; 16: European News Agencies and their Sources in the Iraq War Coverage; 17: Al-Jazeera and War Coverage in Iraq; 18: Big Media and Little Media; 19: The Culture of Distance

Stuart Allan is a lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England. His books include News Culture (Open U 1999) and Media, Risk and Science. (Open U.P. 2002) He edits the series Issues in Cultural and Media Studies for Open U. P., now McGraw-Hill. He has co-edited a number of collections including News, Gender and Power (Routledge 1998), Environmental Risks and the Media (Routledge 2000) and Journalism after September 11 (with Barbie Zelizer) Routledge 2002.Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia. She is the author of several books on journalism, popular culture and coll-ective memory, and co-edited Journalism after September 11. She is a founder and co-editor of the Sage journal Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism.

• Introduction; 1: Rules of Engagement; 1: War in the Twenty-First Century; 2: Understanding; 2: Information Warfare in an Age of Hyper-Militarism; 3: A Moral Imagination; 4: The PR of Terror; 5: Researching US Media–State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars 1; II: Bearing Witness; 6: When War is Reduced to a Photograph; 7: The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited; 8: Tribalism and Tribulation; 9: Humanizing War; 10: Prisoners of News Values?; 11: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?; 12: The Battlefield is the Media; III: Reporting the Iraq War; 13: Militarized Journalism; 14: War or Peace?; 15: How British Television News Represented the Case for the War in Iraq 1; 16: European News Agencies and their Sources in the Iraq War Coverage; 17: Al-Jazeera and War Coverage in Iraq; 18: Big Media and Little Media; 19: The Culture of Distance