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1 online resource (xiii, 193 pages) |
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The road to awe -- When president bites "watchdog" -- Dissent and patriotism: the arm's length principle -- All quiet on the home front -- The prison, the general, and the flexible broadcaster -- Concentrating on bias -- Mea pulpa -- Reintroducing the skeptic's test |
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The road to awe -- "I have here in my hand ..." -- I'll show you fear in a mushroom cloud -- Drawing water from the poisoned well -- When president bites watchdog -- Leapfrogging the mainstream media -- You don't speak for them! -- The media's fight for greater access to information -- Blocking access to information -- The arm's length principle -- The September 11 attacks and their impact on dissent -- Law and the media -- Prior restraint and the Pentagon papers case -- Rolling back the critical media's influence in wartime -- All quiet on the home front -- Al-Jazeera's plummeting stock -- Dissent: a decidedly un-American expression -- "Darkened self-interest": flying the flag and rallying behind the war -- "Hooray for hollywood": the climate of fear and the anti-war celebrities -- The Iraq War and the rescission of the right to free speech -- The prison, the general and the flexible broadcaster -- A question of attribution? -- "Two weeks ago 60 minutes received an appeal ..." -- Media on the march (with the Bush administration) -- CBS -- a betrayal of news values? -- Concentrating on bias -- De-railing the news -- Saving [the media from] private lynch -- Bias: a matter of perspective -- Who's sorry now! -- Mea pulpa -- Shining the light -- Hold the front (or perhaps the middle) page -- Follow the "leader" -- Tracing the apology arc -- Reintroducing the skeptic's test -- The journalist as skeptic -- What if the government held a background briefing and no one came! -- Off the record, but in the paper -- Verification, verification, verification -- Developing editorial vigilance and independence -- Ignoring the patriotic background noise! -- Slowing down the media organization's "metabolism!" -- What's wrong with saying, "we don't know?" |
| Summary |
Answers a key question on the lips of many Americans as violence in Iraq continues and report after report reveals that President Bush's reasons for leading Americans to war were not backed by solid evidence: "Why weren't the media more skeptical during the rush to war?" |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-181) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Mass media and the war
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Press coverage -- United States
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Mass media and war
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Press coverage
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Golfkrieg 2003
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Kriegsberichterstattung
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Falschmeldung
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Massamedia.
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Publieke opinie.
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Oorlog.
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Iraq
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United States
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USA
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Irak.
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Verenigde Staten.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schechter, Danny.
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| ISBN |
9780313054129 |
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0313054126 |
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