Lincoln Group Bombards Iraq with Fake News
Submitted by John Stauber on
Fake news is being used in the Iraq propaganda war, reports the Los Angeles Times. "[T]he U.S.
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Camera/Iraq
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
The Cinema and Media Studies Department at Carleton College in Minnesota has created a website, CameraIraq.com, which gathers news and commentary about public and personal photographic image practices associated with the "war of images in the Middle East." Items in their collection include photos of the dead bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons, the beheading of Nick Berg, the Bush "Mission Accomplished" photo op, and a variety of real and faked images depicting human rights abuses, atrocities and other staples of wartime propaganda.
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Target Practice for Military Recruiters
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
The Pentagon's Joint Advertising, Market Research & Studies project has "finely sliced and diced its data enough to determine that the U.S. Army's prospective recruits come from households likely to listen to Spanish radio," while "the reading list at the households of U.S.
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Advertising Age, November 28, 2005
Protesters Arrested
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
"About a dozen antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested Wednesday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush's ranch" in Crawford, Texas, reports Rosalind S. Helderman. The activists ran afoul of a new county law that was passed following this summer's protests to prohibit parking and camping on public lands near Bush's property.
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Where Was the Media Between Invasion and Murtha?
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
Technologically, the news media are vastly more advanced than it was during the Vietnam war, but commercial and political factors have "kept the war in Iraq marginal in the American media," write Rebecca Dana and Lizzy Ratner. A study done during the Vietnam war found that CBS devoted 91 minutes per month to reporting on Vietnam, whereas U.S. networks this year gave Iraq only 55 minutes per month. Other gaps in reporting include the following:
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Withdrawal from Reality
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
The top U.S.
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The State Department's, uh, War Room
Submitted by Diane Farsetta on
"The U.S. State Department has set up a rapid-response office dedicated to countering international news reports about the U.S.
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Rewriting History
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
“It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how (the Iraq) war began,” Bush scolded his critics in his Veterans Day speech on November 11. But as Robert Parry observes, Bush is the one doing the rewriting. "Bush’s argument is that he didn’t lie the nation into war; he and his top aides were just misled by the same faulty intelligence that Congress saw," he writes.
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The Man Who Sold the War
Submitted by Laura Miller on
While the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence drags its feet on discovering how the White House sold the Iraq war, journalist James Bamford has written a major expose on one of the key players: John Rendon.
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Reporters, Assume the Position
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
"Top White House officials say they're developing a 'campaign-style' strategy in response to increasing Democratic allegations that the Bush administration twisted intelligence to make its case for war," reports Dana Bash.
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