Bring 'Em On Media and Politics in the Iraq

How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. International contributors in mass communication, political science, and sociology address how U.S. institutional media practices, government policy, and culture can influence public mobilization for war.

Foreword: The Bush Administration's March to War

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Douglas Kellner

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1

(154)

Yahya R. Kamalipour

1 Political Legitimacy, Cultural Leadership, and Public Action

7

(16)

Lee Artz

2 Banal Militarism and the Culture of War

23

(14)

Tanja Thomas and Fabian Virchow

3 National Security Strategy and the Ideology of Preventive War

37

(14)

Elisia L. Cohen

4 Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy, and Public Relations: Selling America to the World

51

(16)

Sue Curry Jansen

5 The Problem with Patriotism: Steps toward the Redemption of American Journalism and Democracy

67

(18)

Robert Jensen

6 Culture as Persuasion: Metaphor as Weapon

85

(16)

William B. Hart II and Fran Hassencahl

7 The Invisible Ally: Marketing Australia's War in Iraq

101

(20)

Andrew Jakubowicz and Liz Jacka

8 The Construction of Arabs as Enemies: Post-9/11 Discourse of George W. Bush

121

(18)

Debra Merskin

9 The Political Rhetoric of Sacrifice and Heroism and U.S. Military Intervention

139

(16)

Timothy Cole

10 "The Great American Bubble": Fox News Channel, the "Mirage" of Objectivity, and the Isolation of American Public Opinion

155

(20)

Adel Iskandar

11 Preemptive Strikes on the Cultural Front: Big Radio, the Dixie Chicks, and Homeland Insecurity

175

(14)

Matthew A. Killmeier

12 The Mass Media, Politics, and Warfare

189

(20)

Christian Fuchs

13 Might Makes Right: News Reportage as Discursive Weapon in the War in Iraq

209

(16)

Mike Gasher

14 Journalists Embedded in Culture: War Stories as Political Strategy

225

(14)

Heinz Brandenburg

15 The Power of Public Reporting: The Independent Media Center's Challenge to Corporate Media

239

(16)

Lisa Brooten

Index

255

(10)

About the Contributors

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Bring 'Em On Media and Politics in the Iraq War

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