War, Media, and Propaganda

Yahya R. Kamalipour is professor in the Department of Communication and Creative Arts, Purdue University Calumet. For more information about Dr. Kamaplipour, please visit http://www.kamalipour.com/ Nancy Snow, a former USIA and State Department official, is assistant professor in the College of Communications at California State University, Fullerton, and adjunct professor in the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. She also serves as senior research fellow in the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. For more information about Dr. Snow, please visit http://www.nancysnow.com.

Taken together, the 24 essays in this collection demonstrate once again the truth of the cliché that truth is the first casualty of war. Several contributors discuss, and are disturbed by, the unprecedented extent of deliberate, detailed, and systematic lying (all of which has been documented) by the Bush administration regarding the instigation and conduct of the war on Iraq. Highly recommended.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1 Information Dominance: The Philosophy of Total Propaganda Control?Chapter 4 2 From Bombs and Bullets to Hearts and Minds: U.S. Public Diplomacy in an Age of PropagandaChapter 5 3 Selling the Iraq War: The Media Management Strategies We Never SawChapter 6 4 Measuring Success: Profit and PropagandaChapter 7 5 Spinning War and Blotting Out MemoryChapter 8 6 Weapons of Mass Distraction: World Security and Personal PoliticsChapter 9 7 Spectacle and Media Propaganda in the War on Iraq: A Critique of U.S. Broadcasting NetworksChapter 10 8 War as Promotional "Photo-op": The New York Times's Visual Coverage of the U.S. Invasion of IraqChapter 11 9 Murdoch's War—A Transnational PerspectiveChapter 12 10 Glossy: American Hegemony and the Culture of DeathChapter 13 11 War, Propaganda, and Islam in Muslim and Western SourcesChapter 14 12 Enemy Image: A Case Study in Creating a Mata HariChapter 15 13 Anatomy of a Bonding: An Embedded Reporter's Account of the Bonding Process with the SoldiersChapter 16 14 The War on Iraq: A Reporter's ObservationsChapter 17 15 America: The Fourth ReichChapter 18 16 War on Iraq and Media Coverage: A Middle Eastern PerspectiveChapter 19 17 Iranians and Media Coverage of the War in Iraq: Rhetoric, Propaganda, and ContradictionChapter 20 18 South Africa and Iraq: The Battle for Media RealityChapter 21 19 The Chinese Watching the Iraqi War with Shock and Awe—As a Spectacular GameChapter 22 20 The Self-Absorbed Bully: A Brazilian View of the United States at WarChapter 23 21 Threat or Ally? U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Middle East ConflictChapter 24 22 From Propaganda to Public Diplomacy in the Information AgeChapter 25 23 Can We Make Them Love Us? Public Diplomacy After 9/11Chapter 26 24 War, Media, and Propaganda: An EpilogueChapter 27 Suggested Readings