Bring 'Em On

Media and Politics in the Iraq War

Lee Artz (Anthology Editor) , Yahya R. Kamalipour (Anthology Editor) , Heinz Brandenburg (Contributor) , Lisa Brooten (Contributor) , Elisia L. Cohen (Contributor) , Timothy M. Cole (Contributor) ,
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Bring 'Em On

Media and Politics in the Iraq War

Lee Artz (Anthology Editor) , Yahya R. Kamalipour (Anthology Editor) , Heinz Brandenburg (Contributor) , Lisa Brooten (Contributor) , Elisia L. Cohen (Contributor) , Timothy M. Cole (Contributor) ,
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How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. International contributors in mass communication, political science, and sociology address how U.S. institutional media practices, government policy, and culture can influence public mobilization for war.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1 Political Legitimacy, Cultural Leadership, and Public Action
Chapter 4 2 Banal Militarism and the Culture of War
Chapter 5 3 National Security Strategy and the Ideology of Preventive War
Chapter 6 4 Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, and Public Relations: Selling America to the World
Chapter 7 5 The Problem with Patriotism: Steps Toward the Redemption of American Journalism and Democracy
Chapter 8 6 Culture as Persuasion: Metaphor as Weapon
Chapter 9 7 The Invisible Ally: Marketing Australia's War in Iraq
Chapter 10 8 The Construction of Arabs as Enemies: Post-9/11 Discourse of George W. Bush
Chapter 11 9 The Political Rhetoric of Sacrifice and Heroism and U.S. Military Intervention
Chapter 12 10 'The Great American Bubble': Fox News Channel, the 'Mirage' of Objectivity and the Isolation of American Public Opinion
Chapter 13 11 Pre-emptive Strikes on the Cultural Front: Big Radio, the Dixie Chicks, and Homeland Insecurity
Chapter 14 12 The Mass Media, Politics, and Warfare
Chapter 15 13 Might Makes Right: News Reportage as Discursive Weapon in the War in Iraq
Chapter 16 14 Journalists Embedded in Culture: War Stories as Political Strategy
Chapter 17 15 The Power of Public Reporting: The Independent Media Center's Challenge to Corporate Media
Chapter 18 Suggested Readings

Product details

Published 10 Dec 2004
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 296
ISBN 9798216220541
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Anthology Editor

Lee Artz

YK
Anthology Editor

Yahya R. Kamalipour

Yahya R. Kamalipour is Professor and Chair of the…

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Contributor

Heinz Brandenburg

LB
Contributor

Lisa Brooten

EC
Contributor

Elisia L. Cohen

TC
Contributor

Timothy M. Cole

CF
Contributor

Christian Fuchs

MG
Contributor

Mike Gasher

WH
Contributor

William B. Hart

FH
Contributor

Fran Hassencahl

AI
Contributor

Adel Iskandar

LJ
Contributor

Liz Jacka

AJ
Contributor

Andrew Jakubowicz

SJ
Contributor

Sue Curry Jansen

RJ
Contributor

Robert Jensen

DK
Contributor

Douglas Kellner

MK
Contributor

Matthew A. Killmeier

DM
Contributor

Debra Merskin

TT
Contributor

Tanja Thomas

FV
Contributor

Fabian Virchow

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Foreword

Douglas Kellner

Reviews

  • ...Provides carefully documented analysis, in chapters that stand both as self-contained studies and as building blocks in a multifaceted explanation as to how the media and public culture prepared the American public for the untested policy of so-called preventive war.

    Global Dialogue

  • This book shows how the U.S. corporate media enabled the Bush administration's policy and raises serious questions concerning the role of the media in a democracy-and the need for the media to play more critical and democratic roles in debating issues of war and peace and national security.

    Douglas Kellner, UCLA; author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy, From The Foreword

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