Iraq

Camera/Iraq

by Sheldon Rampton — November 28, 2005 - 11:38pm

The Cinema and Media Studies Department at Carleton College in Minnesota has created a website, CameraIraq.com, which gathers news and commentary about public and personal photographic image practices associated with the "war of images in the Middle East." Items in their collection include photos of the dead bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons, the beheading of Nick Berg, the Bush "Mission Accomplished" photo op, and a variety of real and faked images depicting human rights abuses, atrocities and other staples of wartime propaganda.

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CameraIraq.com

Protesters Arrested

by Sheldon Rampton — November 25, 2005 - 10:19pm

"About a dozen antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested Wednesday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush's ranch" in Crawford, Texas, reports Rosalind S. Helderman. The activists ran afoul of a new county law that was passed following this summer's protests to prohibit parking and camping on public lands near Bush's property.

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Washington Post, November 24, 2005

Where Was the Media Between Invasion and Murtha?

by Sheldon Rampton — November 24, 2005 - 1:39am

Technologically, the news media are vastly more advanced than it was during the Vietnam war, but commercial and political factors have "kept the war in Iraq marginal in the American media," write Rebecca Dana and Lizzy Ratner. A study done during the Vietnam war found that CBS devoted 91 minutes per month to reporting on Vietnam, whereas U.S. networks this year gave Iraq only 55 minutes per month. Other gaps in reporting include the following:

  • "Dead troops are invisible. ...

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New York Observer, November 28, 2005

Rewriting History

by Sheldon Rampton — November 18, 2005 - 2:46pm

“It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how (the Iraq) war began,” Bush scolded his critics in his Veterans Day speech on November 11. But as Robert Parry observes, Bush is the one doing the rewriting. "Bush’s argument is that he didn’t lie the nation into war; he and his top aides were just misled by the same faulty intelligence that Congress saw," he writes.

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Consortium News, November 16, 2005

The Man Who Sold the War

by Laura Miller — November 17, 2005 - 7:31pm

While the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence drags its feet on discovering how the White House sold the Iraq war, journalist James Bamford has written a major expose on one of the key players: John Rendon.

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Rolling Stone, November 17, 2005

Reporters, Assume the Position

by Sheldon Rampton — November 11, 2005 - 8:59pm

"Top White House officials say they're developing a 'campaign-style' strategy in response to increasing Democratic allegations that the Bush administration twisted intelligence to make its case for war," reports Dana Bash.

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CNN, November 8, 2005

Quarterback Sneak

by Sheldon Rampton — November 8, 2005 - 9:25am

Ahmed Chalabi was once dubbed the "George Washington of Iraq" by neoconservatives, as his Iraqi National Congress provided much of the false intelligence information that led the United States into war.

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Washington Post, November 6, 2005

Halliburton's New Head Flack

by Sheldon Rampton — November 7, 2005 - 9:46pm

"Halliburton, one of the most politically charged and controversial corporate brands in the world, has a new head of communications," reports PR Week. Wendy Hall, the company's former director of communications, resigned in April.

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PR Week, November 7, 2005 (sub req'd.)
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