Readings for today:
- Robert McChesney, “Telling the Truth at a Moment of Truth: US News Media and the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq," via the International Endowment for Democracy. Reprinted in The Political Economy of Media (Monthly Review Press, 2008), pp. 97-116. *This is also posted to ANGEL if the link above does not work.
Keywords: journalistic integrity/professionalism, weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), Downing Street Memo, Abu Ghraib, military industrial complex
For further reading and research:
- Al Jazeera World: Songs of War (a special on music as a weapon of war).