[MUST READ!!!!!!!!!] ALJAZEERA ARTICLES ON WAR IN IRAQ

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Bombing endangers invaluable heritage sites across Iraq

 

Historians refer to the area around the rivers Tigris and Euphrates as the "cradle of civilisation" with traces of human settlements  dating back 10,000 years. It is where the first cities arose, writing was invented and a succession of cultures --  Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Islamic – flourished.

 

http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/topics/articleda2a.html?cu_no=1&item_no=841&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258

 

War journalism guided with military precision

US and UK governments have shown themselves adept at learning media-management lessons from successive conflicts. In both Suez (1956) and most importantly Vietnam, the UK and US governments came to believe that propaganda was key to winning wars. In the Suez debacle General Sir Charles Keighley concluded in an internal British government report in 1957 that the “over-riding lesson” was that 'world opinion is now the absolute principle of war'.  The role of the media in the Vietnam war was believed by many to have been a key factor in the defeat of the US. But in fact the US media only started to feature dissent after the US ruling elite became split on the war...... The success of news management in the Falklands was not lost on the US government as Lt Commander Arthur Humphries of the US Navy noted in 1983:

“In spite of a perception of choice in a democratic society, the Falklands War shows us how to make certain that government policy is not undermined by the way a war is reported. Control access to the fighting, invoke censorship, and rally aid in the form of patriotism at home and in the battle zone”. This policy was followed in the US invasions of both Grenada in 1984 and Panama in 1989.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/article-war-journalism.htm

Then and Now:
	Iraqi People Don't Amount to Much Inside US Media Frame

http://www.thememoryhole.org/media/al-jazeera/topics/article75e4.html?cu_no=1&item_no=915&version=1&template_id=282&parent_id=258

read chronicles of an independent american journalist in northern iraq

http://www.back-to-iraq.com/archives/000227.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

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