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 War, 1998-1999.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Press coverage.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Mass media and the war.

Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Propaganda.

Physical Description:

x, 222 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How is war reported?.

Contents:

Foreword by Harold Pinter Introduction by Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman Part One: The West's Destruction of Yugoslavia 1. Nato and the New World Order: Ideals and Self-interest by Diana Johnstone 2. Western Intervention and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1989-1999 by David Chandler 3. War Crimes by Mirjana Skoco and William Woodger 4. The War and its Aftermath by Peter Gowan Part Two: Seeing the Enemy 5. New Militarism and the Manufacture of Warfare by Richard Keeble 6. Nazifying the Serbs, from Bosnia to Kosovo by Mick Hume 7. The Military and the Media by Mirjana Skoco and William Woodger 8. Symbolic Warfare: Nato vs. the Serbian Media by Goran Gocic Part Three: Reporting the War around the World 9. Following Washington's Script: The United States Media and Kosovo by Seth Ackerman and Jim Naureckas 10. CNN: Selling Nato's War Globally by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson 11. Third Way War: New Labour, the British Media and Kosovo by Philip Hammond 12. Censorship by Omission by John Pilger 13. The French Media and the Kosovo War by Diana Johnstone 14. From 'Never again War' to 'Never again Auschwitz': Dilemmas of German Media Policy in the War against Yugoslavia by Thomas Deichmann 15. 'Thank you God! Thank you Norway!' Norwegian Newspapers and the Kosovo War by Karin Trandheim Ron 16. The Greek 'Participation' in Kosovo by Nikos Raptis 17. Consensus and Conflict in the Russian Press by Philip Hammond, Lilia Nizamova and Irina Saveliyeva 18. India by Raju Thomas and Siddharth Varadarajan Conclusions: First Casualty and Beyond by Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman References Contributors Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0745316328

9781849640909

1849640904

9780585425559

0585425558

OCLC:

51002503