Degraded Capability

The Media and the Kosovo Crisis

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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The media served a highly partisan and propagandistic role in Nato’s Kosovo war, uncritically reproducing official spin in a way that was incompatible with their proclaimed democratic role as objective purveyors of information. Degraded Capability integrates a critical interpretation of Western policy toward the former Yugoslavia with analysis of media coverage of the Kosovo crisis and war. The first part of the book deals with the war itself and the build-up to it, placing this in the context of earlier Western intervention in Yugoslavia. Part two discusses key issues raised by the media coverage, including the demonisation of the enemy, and the role of CNN. In the final section, contributors analyse how the war was reported in different countries around the world, including the United States, Britain, Germany, India, Greece, Russia, and France. The book is an important corrective to the hysteria and misinformation that permeated media coverage. Subjects covered include the role of the internet, the changing media-military relationship, the depiction and definition of ‘war crimes,’ and how Yugoslav television was presented as a legitimate military target.

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Utgivningsdatum:2000-05-20
Mått:135 x 215 x undefined mm
Vikt:333 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745316314

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Philip Hammond is senior lecturer in Media Studies at South Bank University. He has written on media coverage and the Kosovo war for the Independent and The Times.Edward S. Herman (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. A media analyst with a speciality in corporate and regulatory issues, as well as political economy, he collaborated with Noam Chomsky on a number of books, including The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (Pluto, 2015) and After the Cataclysm (Pluto, 2015).

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'This extraordinary volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of the media is advancing NATO's Kosovo war'

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Foreword by Harold PinterIntroduction by Philip Hammond and Edward S. HermanPart One: The West’s Destruction of Yugoslavia1. Nato and the New World Order: Ideals and Self-interest by Diana Johnstone2. Western Intervention and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1989-1999 by David Chandler3. War Crimes by Mirjana Skoco and William Woodger4. The War and its Aftermath by Peter GowanPart Two: Seeing the Enemy5. New Militarism and the Manufacture of Warfare by Richard Keeble6. Nazifying the Serbs, from Bosnia to Kosovo by Mick Hume7. The Military and the Media by Mirjana Skoco andWilliam Woodger8. Symbolic Warfare: Nato vs. the Serbian Media by Goran GocicPart Three: Reporting the War around the World9. Following Washington’s Script: The United States Media and Kosovo by Seth Ackerman and Jim Naureckas10. CNN: Selling Nato’s War Globally by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson11. Third Way War: New Labour, the British Media and Kosovo by Philip Hammond12. Censorship by Omission by John Pilger13. The French Media and the Kosovo War by Diana Johnstone14. From ‘Never again War’ to ‘Never again Auschwitz’: Dilemmas of German Media Policy in the War against Yugoslavia by Thomas Deichmann15. ‘Thank you God! Thank you Norway!’ Norwegian Newspapers and the Kosovo War by Karin Trandheim Røn16. The Greek ‘Participation’ in Kosovo by Nikos Raptis17. Consensus and Conflict in the Russian Press by Philip Hammond, Lilia Nizamova and Irina Saveliyeva18. India by Raju Thomas and Siddharth VaradarajanConclusions: First Casualty and Beyond by Philip Hammond and Edward S. HermanReferencesContributorsIndex