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Tell Me Lies: Propaganda and Media distortion in the Attack on Iraq, ed. David Miller
'If you suspect that the media have not told you the full truth about the Iraq War, read this book. It is a revelation.' Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Visit David Miller's web site for information on his important collection about Iraq and the media - including a special discount price offer. The book contains essays by Mark Thomas, Chomsky, Pilger, Robert Fisk and many miore, including a number of CPBF members: Patricia Holland, Tim Gopsill, Julian Petley, Stephen Dorril and Granville Williams.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Foreword (Mark Thomas) Introduction (David Miller) Part 1 The Media War 1. John Pilger: A great betrayal 2. John Pilger: The lies of old 3. John Pilger:The case for civil disobedience 4. John Pilger: Crime against humanity 5. John Pilger: The unthinkable is becoming normal Part 2 Propaganda Wars 6. Laura Miller, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton: War is sell 7. Nancy Snow: Brainscrubbing: The Failures of U.S. Public Diplomacy After 9/11 8. Des Freedman: Misreporting war has a long history 9. Mark Curtis: Psychological warfare against the public: Iraq and beyond 10. David Miller: The Propaganda Machine 11. Philip Knightley: History or bunkum? 12. Stephen Dorril: Spies and lies 13. Andy Rowell: No Blood for oil? Part 3 Misreporting war 14. Mark Steel: The minute it’s made up, you’ll hear about it. 15. Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes: Reporting the war on British television 16. Doug Kellner: 9/11, Spectacles of Terror, and Media Manipulation 17. Norman Solomon: 'Look, I'm An American' 18. Julian Petley: 'Let the Atrocious Images Haunt Us' 19. Ed Herman: Normalising aggression Patricia Holland Little Ali and other rescued children 21. Granville Williams: Watchdogs or Lapdogs? 22. Abdul Hadi Jiad: The BBC: A personal account 23. David Cromwell and David Edwards: Mass Deception: How The Media Helped The Government Deceive The People 24. Robert Fisk: Covering the Middle East 25. Tim Llewellyn: Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story 26. Greg Philo and Maureen Gilmour: Black holes of history Part 4 Alternatives 27. Faisal Bodi: Al Jazeera's war 28. Tim Gopsill: Target the media 29. Yvonne Ridley: Turning my back on the mainstream 30. David Crouch: Working in and against the system 31. Alistair Alexander: Disruptive Technology: Iraq and the Internet 32. Noam Chomsky: The anti-war movement
LINKSstaff.stir.ac.uk/david.miller/publications/Tellmelies.html
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Last modified: Tuesday, November 22, 2005
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World Press Freedom Day
More reporters are currently imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world. Only a matter of weeks ago lawyers failed to persuade a Turkish court to release a 76-year-old journalist from a Turkish internet news station.
World Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, 2013 is being marked in Britain by a rally to highlight the dangers facing journalists in Turkey and in this podcast, Nicholas Jones speaks to Barry White, Organiser at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Sam Bamford, the TUC's policy officer for Eastern Europe and Africa about the importance of a campaign to highlight international press freedom.
The World Press Freedom Day rally is being staged by the National Union of Journalists at the NUJ head office, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1 on Thursday May 2, 6pm-8pm.
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DATELINE: 13/3/13
The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).
A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
This petition calls for the EU to act to protect media pluralism and press freedom.
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