“All the Lies that Fit: Professor Joshua Meyrowitz on Why We Can’t Trust the Media” (original) (raw)

“When Media Mislead: UNH Professor Looks Back on Five Years of War Coverage"

The Wire, 2008

It’s been five years since the Iraq war began, and the U.S. military is still operating in Iraq. The war, which many believed would be a short-term engagement, has turned into a long-term disaster. If Americans had foreseen such a lengthy engagement, would they have been so eager to invade Iraq? If more accurate information had been available before the invasion, would support for the war have been so strong? In advance of the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, Professor Joshua Meyrowitz discusses his findings with The Wire.

The Media and the Gulf War: Framing, Priming, and the Spiral of Silence

Polity, 1994

Northeast Boston Globe New York Times Washington Post Wall Street Journal 'The authors thank Sue A. Lafky and Renee Wruck for assistance with data collection and analysis and Carleton College and the University of Minnesota for generous support of this research. Polity Volume XXVII, Number 2 Winfer 1994 256 The Media and the Gulf War Barbara Allen et al. 257 t together protest demonstrations. .. that were larger than most rches of the Vietnam era."4 Many Americans wished to avoid war so much that only hours before bombing began, a phlrality of the public agreed with a proposal to end the crisis by giving a piccc of Kuwait IO Iraq, if Kuwait would agree.5 News coverage bcforc January I6 did not reflect this debate. Instead, as Gene Ruffini notes "nightly network news programs largely Ignore& 'public efforts to oppose the Bush administration's

Public Discourse in an Age of Deception: Forging the Iraq War

Critical Sociology, 2009

This article combines political-economic and dramaturgical frameworks to examine techniques the Bush administration used to sell the Iraq War to the public, the propaganda role of mass media, and the roots of the war. Discussion also includes the influence of oil on foreign policy, the USA's historical interest in the Middle East, and the quest of rearranging geo-political realities in that region.

Corporate Media Manipulation in the Us Wars: A Case Study of Iraq War

Margalla Papers

Media, as a source of information, plays a crucial role in opinion-making and perception-building. During the Iraq War (2003), the media's role was to shape the images of war while propagating specific ideas to influence the people. As a result, the world perceived propagandistic messages that appeared to take the form of fake news. The disinformation campaign was designed to profess the threat of weapons of mass destruction and explicate Saddam Hussein's affiliation with terrorist organizations as a threat to the world. The instantly shared live images, videos, recordings, and pictures across mass media platforms elicited shock, dismay, and disbelief throughout the world. With this insight, this paper attempts to comprehend the role of media propaganda which promoted the agenda of a media spectacle of the US military victory by transforming into a presentation of anarchy that destabilizes the rationale behind the invasion. It also provides an overview of the development of ...