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Obama, the media, and framing the U.S. exit from Iraq and Afghanistan
Situating Obama's end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan begins with a detailed comparison with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media framing - the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama's December 2009 'surge-then-exit' strategy from Afghanistan and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 - to explore the role of mass media in presenting presidential narratives of war and finds evidence of an interpretive disconnect between the media and a president seeking to present a more nuanced approach to keeping America safe. Eloquently scrutinizing Obama's discourse on the U.S. exit from two post-9/11 wars and contrasting the presidential endgame frame with the U.S. mainstream media's narratives of the wars’ meaning, accomplishments, and denouement provides a unique combination of qualitative content analysis and topical case studies and makes this volume an ideal resource for scholars and researchers grappling with the complicated and ever-evolving nexus of war, the president, and the media.
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Reporters on the Battlefield
Focusing on the embedded press system deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, this book attempts to answer the following questions: How effective was the embedded press system in meeting the needs of the three main constituencies-the press, the military, and the citizens of the United States? What policy history led to the innovation of an embedded press system? Where are press-military relations likely to go in the future?
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Media at war : the Iraq crisis
The Iraq war provoked widespread public debate, and media coverage of the events have also been the subject of scrutiny. Embedded reporters, 24-hour news and ′live on the spot′ reports have had a huge impact on the news we receive. The Media at War offers a critical overview of the war coverage, and provides a context for examining questions that emerged about the role of journalists: · What experience, training and protection do war reporters have? · What is the relationship between journalists and their sources? · Are embedded journalists able to deliver balanced news coverage? Howard Tumber and Jerry Palmer examine the pre-war phase, the military campaign and the post-war phase, as well as attitudes and interpretations of these events. Their comprehensive analysis includes both news page and comment page material.
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The pen and the sword : press, war, and terror in the 21st century
An eye-opening case study of the news at war, introducing a critical perspective on our mass mediaThe Pen and the Sword is the only comprehensive examination of how the media have covered the 21st Century’s #1 news story: terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the full story—from 9/11 to the Obama doctrine, and including:The increasing importance of entertainment media and soft news in shaping our views.
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Tell Me Lies
Did the US and UK governments lie about weapons of mass destruction to promote an attack on Iraq? Did the media hold them to account or act as cheerleaders for war?
Tell me Lies reveals the systematic propaganda used by both the US and UK governments to convince us of the 'threat' from Iraq. It shows how we were deliberately misled into a war that has resulted in a humanitarian disaster in Iraq and threatens to create further instability and resentment of the US and UK throughout the Middle East.
Written by some of the world's leading journalists and commentators, it's a scathing indictment of the role of the mainstream media in legitimising government actions and undermining dissent. Critics, activists and journalists from both sides of the Atlantic explore alternatives such as the internet and Al Jazeera and provide analysis and guidance on resisting the media war.
Contributors include John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Edward Herman, Mark Thomas, Mark Steel, and cartoonist Steve Bell amongst many others.
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War Stories
How does the American public formulate its opinions about U.S. foreign policy and military engagement abroad?War Storiesargues that the media systematically distort the information the public vitally needs to determine whether to support such initiatives, for reasons having more to do with journalists' professional interests than the merits of the policies, and that this has significant consequences for national security. Matthew Baum and Tim Groeling develop a \"strategic bias\" theory that explains the foreign-policy communication process as a three-way interaction among the press, political elites, and the public, each of which has distinct interests, biases, and incentives.
Do media representations affect public support for the president and faithfully reflect events in times of diplomatic crisis and war? How do new media--especially Internet news and more partisan outlets--shape public opinion, and how will they alter future conflicts? In answering such questions, Baum and Groeling take an in-depth look at media coverage, elite rhetoric, and public opinion during the Iraq war and other U.S. conflicts abroad. They trace how traditional and new media select stories, how elites frame and sometimes even distort events, and how these dynamics shape public opinion over the course of a conflict.
Most of us learn virtually everything we know about foreign policy from media reporting of elite opinions. InWar Stories, Baum and Groeling reveal precisely what this means for the future of American foreign policy.
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Weapons of Mass Persuasion
Weapons of Mass Persuasionchronicles the making of a Hollywood war: fast-paced and heroic, pitting the forces of good against the forces of evil to achieve a triumphant, sanitized, and commodified outcome.
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The Mysteries of Haditha
M. C. Armstrong secured his embed as a journalist with the Navy
SEALs in 2008. Shortly before he left for Iraq his father asked him
to tell the story no one else seemed to be telling, the story of
the people sometimes constructed as our friends and other times our
enemies: the Iraqis. \"But what about them?\" he asked. \"Who's their
good guy? Who's their George Washington? That's the story you want
to find. Talk to them.\" Armstrong's searing memories about his
relationship with his father, his fiancé, and his SEAL team
companion take the reader on a nosedive ride from a historically
black college in the American South straight into Baghdad, the burn
pits, and the desert beyond the mysterious Haditha dam. Culminating
in the disclosure of a devastating secret, The Mysteries of
Haditha explores the lengths Armstrong was willing to go to
prove himself and to witness a truth he couldn't have prepared
himself to receive. At once daring, dark, and hilarious, this
memoir of M. C. Armstrong's journey pulls no punches and lifts the
veil on the lies we tell each other and the ones we tell ourselves.
The Mysteries of Haditha is a coming-of-age story and an
unprecedented glimpse into the heart of the war on terror.
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