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Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War

by John R Macarthur

ISBN13: 9780809085170
ISBN10: 0809085178
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Second Front documents in vivid detail the behind-the-scenes activities by the U.S. and Kuwaiti governments which limited the American media’s constitutional right to observe, question, and report on activities during Operation Desert Storm. In frank and startling interviews with, among others, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Ben Bradlee, Katharine Graham, Robert Wright, and Pete Williams, John R. MacAuthur shows how the press corps was treated more like a fifth column than as representatives of a free people. He demonstrates how, despite the torrent of words and images from the Persian Gulf, Americans were systematically and deliberately kept in the dark about events, politics, and simple facts during the Gulf crisis.

With a reporter’s critical eye and a historian’s sensibility, he traces decades of press-government relations—during Vietnam, Grenada, and Panama—which helped set the stage for restrictions on Gulf War reporting and for a public-relations triumph by the government. His analysis of the issues that confronted the media in this war is frightening testimony to what happens when the government goes unchallenged, when questions go unasked.

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ISBN:
9780809085170
Subtitle:
Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War
Author:
MacArthur, John R., Jr.
Author:
MacArthur, John R., Jr.
Publisher:
Hill and Wang
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Middle East
Subject:
U.S. Government
Subject:
Middle East - General
Subject:
Censorship
Subject:
Persian gulf war, 1991
Subject:
Freedom of the press
Subject:
Government and the press
Subject:
Government and the press -- United States.
Subject:
POL039000
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Series Volume:
10
Publication Date:
19920619
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
260
Dimensions:
8.55x5.83x.96 in. .79 lbs.

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