Seeing Through the Media
Author: Susan Jeffords
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780813520421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eye-opening look at the effect of the media on public perception of The Persian Gulf War
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The Media and the Gulf War An Eyewitness Account
Author: Peter Arnett
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789948242994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Persian Gulf TV War
Author: Douglas Kellner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1000304329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouglas Kellner's Persian Gulf TV War attacks the myths, disinformation, and propaganda disseminated during the Gulf war. At once a work of social theory, media criticism, and political history, this book demonstrates how television served as a conduit for George Bush's war policies while silencing anti-war voices and foregoing spirited discussion of the complex issues involved. In so doing, the medium failed to assume its democratic responsibilities of adequately informing the American public and debating issues of common concern. Kellner analyzes the dominant frames through which television presented the war and focuses on the propaganda that sold the war to the public–one of the great media spectacles and public relations campaigns of the post-World War II era. In the spirit of Orwell and Marcuse, Kellner studies the language surrounding the Gulf war and the cynical politics of distortion and disinformation that shaped the mainstream media version of the war, how the Bush administration and Pentagon manipulated the media, and why a majority of the American public accepted the war as just and moral.
Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War
Author: John Mueller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-06-15
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0226545652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Persian Gulf crisis may well have been the most extensively polled episode in U.S. history as President Bush, his opponents, and even Saddam Hussein appealed to, and tried to influence, public opinion. As well documented as this phenomenon was, it remains largely unexplained. John Mueller provides an account of the complex relationship between American policy and public opinion during the Gulf crisis. Mueller analyzes key issues: the actual shallowness of public support for war; the effect of public opinion on the media (rather than the other way around); the use and misuse of polls by policy makers; the American popular focus on Hussein's ouster as a central purpose of the War; and the War's short-lived impact on voting. Of particular interest is Mueller's conclusion that Bush succeeded in leading the country to war by increasingly convincing the public that it was inevitable, rather than right or wise. Throughout, Mueller, author of War, Presidents, and Public Opinion, an analysis of public opinion during the Korean and Vietnam wars, places this analysis of the Gulf crisis in a broad political and military context, making comparisons to wars in Panama, Vietnam, Korea, and the Falklands, as well as to World War II and even the War of 1812. The book also collects nearly 300 tables charting public opinion through the Gulf crisis, making Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War an essential reference for anyone interested in recent American politics, foreign policy, public opinion, and survey research.
Persian Gulf War
Author: Kathlyn Gay
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780805041026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the circumstances leading up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the political and military events of the Persian Gulf War, using quotes from people directly involved.
Taken by Storm
Author: W. Lance Bennett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-10-03
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780226042596
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Crusade
Author: Rick Atkinson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780395710838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntegrating interviews with individuals ranging from senior policymakers to frontline soldiers, a look at the Persian Gulf War shows how the conflict transformed modern warfare.
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
Author: Jean Baudrillard
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780253210036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event--a "virtual" war. Patton's introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order.
The Discourse of Propaganda
Author: John Oddo
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2019-01-18
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0271082755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 1990s, false reports of Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait allowing premature infants to die by removing them from their incubators helped to justify the Persian Gulf War, just as spurious reports of weapons of mass destruction later undergirded support for the Iraq War in 2003. In The Discourse of Propaganda, John Oddo examines these and other such cases to show how successful wartime propaganda functions as a discursive process. Oddo argues that propaganda is more than just misleading rhetoric generated by one person or group; it is an elaborate process that relies on recontextualization, ideally on a massive scale, to keep it alive and effective. In a series of case studies, he analyzes both textual and visual rhetoric as well as the social and material conditions that allow them to circulate, tracing how instances of propaganda are constructed, performed, and repeated in diverse contexts, such as speeches, news reports, and popular, everyday discourse. By revealing the agents, (inter)texts, and cultural practices involved in propaganda campaigns, The Discourse of Propaganda shines much-needed light on the topic and challenges its readers to consider the complicated processes that allow propaganda to flourish. This book will appeal not only to scholars of rhetoric and propaganda but also to those interested in unfolding the machinations motivating America’s recent military interventions.
War and the Media
Author: Philip M. Taylor
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780719037542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Gulf War of 1991 was the highest profile media war in history. Never before had so many journalists attempted to cover a war from both sides of the conflict. This book traces the role of the media in the Gulf War and examines the attempts by both the coalition and Iraq to influence public opinion through propaganda and persuasion. Philp Taylor asks how much the public was being told and how much was held back. Analyzing the key news stories of the conflict he looks at the efforts of the American-led coalition to persuade television audiences and newspaper readers to take a "right view" of what was happening and of the Iraqi government's propaganda campaigns concerning civilian damage and the "Mother of all Battles."
