Bring 'Em On
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....
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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 warIntroduction11Political legitimacy, cultural leadership, and public action72Banal militarism and the culture of war233National security strategy and the ideology of preventive war374Foreign policy, public diplomacy, and public relations : selling America to the world515The problem with patriotism : steps toward the redemption of American journalism and democracy676Culture as persuasion : metaphor as weapon857The invisible ally : marketing Australia's war in Iraq1018The construction of Arabs as enemies : post-9/11 discourse of George W. Bush1219The political rhetoric of sacrifice and heroism and U.S. military intervention13910"The great American bubble" : Fox News Channel, the "mirage" of objectivity, and the isolation of American public opinion15511Preemptive strikes on the cultural front : big radio, the Dixie Chicks, and homeland insecurity17512The mass media, politics, and warfare18913Might makes right : news reportage as discursive weapon in the war in Iraq20914Journalists embedded in culture : war stories as political strategy22515The power of public reporting : the independent media center's challenge to corporate media239
\ Global Dialogue...Provides carefully documented analysis, in chapters that stand both as self-contained studies and as building blocks in a multifaceted explanation as to how the media and public culture prepared the American public for the untested policy of so-called preventive war.\ \
