Degraded capability : the media and the Kosovo crisis / edited by Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hammond, Phil, 1964-

Herman, Edward S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kosovo (Republic)--History--Civil War, 1998-.

Kosovo (Republic).

History.

Kosovo (Republic)--History--Civil War, 1998---Press coverage.

Press coverage.

Kosovo (Republic)--History--Civil War, 1998---Mass media and the war.

Kosovo (Republic)--History--Civil War, 1998---Propaganda.

Propaganda.

Mass media and war.

Kosovo (Serbia)--History--1980-.

Local Subjects:

Mass media and war.

Kosovo (Serbia)--History--1980-.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000.

Summary:

The media served a highly partisan and propagandistic role in Nato's Kosovo war, uncritically reproducing official spin in a way that was incompatible with their proclaimed democratic role as objective purveyors of information. This is the first book to integrate a critical interpretation of Western policy toward the former Yugoslavia with an analysis of media coverage of the Kosovo crisis and war.

Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis offers an important corrective to the hysteria and misinformation that permeated media coverage of the war, and analyses how the war was reported in different countries around the world, including the United States, Britain, Germany, India, Greece, Russia, and France. Contributors include John Pilger, Diana Johnstone, Jim Naureckas, Mick Hume, Raju Thomas, David Chandler, and Thomas Deichmann.

Contents:

Part I The West's Destruction of Yugoslavia

1. Nato and the New World Order: Ideals and Self-Interest / Diana Johnstone 7

2. Western Intervention and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1989-1999 / David Chandler 19

3. War Crimes / Mirjana Skoco, William Woodger 31

4. The War and its Aftermath / Peter Gowan 39

Part II Seeing the Enemy

5. New Militarism and the Manufacture of Warfare / Richard Keeble 59

6. Nazifying the Serbs, from Bosnia to Kosovo / Mick Hume 70

7. The Military and the Media / Mirjana Skoco, William Woodger 79

8. Symbolic Warfare: Nato versus the Serbian Media / Goran Gocic 88

Part III Reporting the War around the World

9. Following Washington's Script: The United States Media and Kosovo / Seth Ackerman, Jim Naureckas 97

10. CNN: Selling Nato's War Globally / Edward S. Herman, David Peterson 111

11. Third Way War: New Labour, the British Media and Kosovo / Philip Hammond 123

12. Censorship by Omission / John Pilger 132

13. The French Media and the Kosovo War / Diana Johnstone 141

14. From 'Never again War' to 'Never again Auschwitz': Dilemmas of German Media Policy in the War against Yugoslavia / Thomas Deichmann 153

15. 'Thank you God! Thank you Norway!' Norwegian Newspapers and the Kosovo War / Karin Trandheim Ron 164

16. The Greek 'Participation' in Kosovo / Nikos Raptis 170

17. Consensus and Conflict in the Russian Press / Philip Hammond, Lilia Nizamova, Irina Savelieva 177

18. India

How India Sees Through Western Reports / Raju G. C. Thomas 185

An Indian View of the Western Media from Iraq to Yugoslavia / Siddharth Varadarajan 196

Conclusions: First Casualty and Beyond / Philip Hammond, Edward S. Herman 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index.

ISBN:

0745316328

074531631X

OCLC:

43615214