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Media wars, news at a time of terror, Danny Schechter

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Media wars

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Danny Schechter

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news at a time of terror

Provides a critique and assessment of the media after 9/11. Includes web log entries, columns, and articles by correspondents and alternative journalists analyzing the events of 9/11 and the media's coverage of the U.S. government's war on terrorism. Stresses the lack of international coverage of the American media, examines the media distortion, oversimplification, and government propaganda as major roadblocks in accurate coverage of terrorism and war, and provides a thorough analysis of the news media and how 9/11 affected the content of broadcast and print news sources. Concludes that there is a lack of a truly free and independent press in America owing to government and corporate control

Dedication -- Introductory statement : On media responsibility / Walter Cronkite -- Foreword / Roland Schatz -- Introduction -- Opening salvo -- I : Warring with the coverage of war -- Attack--September 11, 2001 : from the news dissector's weblog ; Day video cameras were everywhere ; Flashback : before September 11 ; Global news we ignore can be fatal ; Death and civic renewal : from the news dissector's weblog ; Blow to the city ; Week seven : from the news dissector's weblog ; Turbanators and the terrorists--war crimes and media omissions : from the news dissector's weblog ; Week of the skeptics : from the news dissector's weblog ; Role of CNN ; Looking for light at a time of darkness : from the news dissector's weblog ; Return to normalcy? ; Project methodology ; War on terrorism ; Indian perspective on media coverage ; Terrorism is a term that requires consistency ; Government and the press--war-media connection ; Warning--media management now in effect : from the news dissector's weblog ; Information warriors : from the news dissector's weblog ; Is the media ready for a new war? ; Media war : the cultural dimension ; Cultural responses--music as media : from the news dissector's weblog ; Media, celebrity, and family ; Independent film and media coverage ; Cultural responses : humor ; Israel-Palestine ; Israel on receiving end of media's image of terror ; Media and the Middle East ; Tips for covering conflict ; Arab worldviews : U.S. alternative journalism ; Counseling journalists ; On asking for help ; Fast forward to summer : from the news dissector's weblog -- II. Monitoring media and promoting democracy -- World of media and media as a world ; Mediachannel.org and other ways to change the world ; One world under media ; Who sets the media agenda? ; Media monitoring