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War and Media:
Censorship, Propaganda, and Myth in the
Information Age
On October 17, 2001, ten days into the US bombing of Afghanistan, and the day that the well-known peace activist and Jesuit Priest, Father Daniel Berrigan spoke at Fordham University, I printed a news item from the web page of the UK Guardian newspaper. The story reported that the Pentagon spent millions of dollars to prevent Western news outlets from acquiring highly accurate satellite pictures of the effects of bombing in Afghanistan....more
From the journal EXTRA! That's Militainment: The Pentagon's media-friendly "reality" war
June, 2003
Black Hawk
Down as ‘Real Entertainment’: Reinventing the War Hero for the 21st
Century, (2002) paper submitted to the International Communication
Association, 2003 Conference, San Diego, California. Abstract of Black Hawk Down
Education seems to be one of the only
antidotes to the power of persuasion. The President’s war rhetoric against
Saddam Hussein sounds strangely familiar, harking back to the early uses of
demonization that characterized WWI propaganda. How are attempts to close down
freedom of speech on college campuses connected to this history...more
Turning Tragedy into War
Produced
10 days after the attack on the World Trade Center by the Paper Tiger
Television collective, this videotape offers a critique of the media coverage
of the September 11th terrorist attacks. The media’s immediate call
for war closed a broader public debate on issues of foreign policy from an
informed perspective. Segments include on the ground coverage by independent
filmmakers of New York in the days that followed the attacks. Turing Tragedy
into War has been widely distributed and was part of the New York Documentary
Festival held at the Museum of Modern Art (December 2001) featuring independent
films and videos produced after 9-11.
Words of
Fire: Independent Journalist Who Challenge Dictators, Drug Lords, and Other
Enemies of a Free Press. Anthony
Collings. New York University Press: New York, 2001. Journal of Communication, forthcoming
Publications
on the topic of
War and
Media
Is ‘Balanced’ Coverage Really Fair Coverage? (1995). Journalism: Stories from
the Real World, Retta Blaney (ed.), North
American Press: New York.
Oliver North and the News, (1992). Journalism and Popular
Culture. Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks (eds.), Sage Publications: London.
pp. 171-189.
Consuming the Persian Gulf War: Changing Modes of
Nonfiction Communication, (1992). Proceedings: 9th Annual Intercultural and
International Communication Conference. University of Miami. (May) pp.
112-115.
Media, Marketing and Politics in the Age of
Fragmentation, (1992). The Ideology of International Communications,
Monograph Series: #4. The Institute for Media Analysis: New York. pp. 47-68.
The Press, the Public, and the New World Order, (1991). Media Development: Special
Issue, Reporting the Gulf War. (October) pp. 20-26.
CNN Covers the War: Iraqi Dupes or Pentagon
Promoters? (1991). with Paolo Carpignano. Extra! Special Issue on the Gulf War. Vol.4,
No.3 (May) pp. 12‑13.
Visions of Instability: US Television's Law and Order
News of El Salvador, (1990). The Media Reader. Manuel Alvarado and
John O. Thompson (eds.), British Film Institute Publishing: London. pp. 229‑243. reprinted from Media, Culture and
Society. Sage: London. Vol.10. pp. 239‑264.
Images of War: Photojournalism, Ideology and Central
America, (1989). Latin American
Perspectives. Issue # 61, Volume 16, Number 2 (Spring) pp. 96‑114.