Contributors including Maiim Badii, Yahya R. Kamalipour, Karim H. Karim & R.S. Zaharna explore the intersections of war & the media, with particular reference to the role of the media in war contexts as an instrument of propaganda.

Includes index.

Information dominance : the philosophy of total propaganda control? / David Miller -- From bombs and bullets to hearts and minds : U.S. public diplomacy in an age of propaganda / Nancy Snow -- Selling the Iraq War : the media management strategies we never saw / Danny Schechter -- Measuring success : profit and propaganda / David J. Collison -- Spinning war and blotting out memory / Norman Solomon -- Weapons of mass distraction : world security and personal politics / Naren Chitty -- Spectacle and media propaganda in the war on Iraq : a critique of U.S. broadcasting networks / Douglas Kellner -- War as promotional "photo-op" : The New York Times' visual coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq / Lee Artz -- Murdoch's war ; a transnational perspective / Daya Kishan Thussu -- Glossy: American hegemony and the culture of death / Leila Conners Petersen -- War, propaganda, and Islam in Muslim and western sources / Karim H. Karim -- Enemy image : a case study in creating a Mata Hari / Asra Q. Nomani -- Anatomy of a bonding : an embedded reporter's account of the bonding process -- With the soldiers / Ronald Paul Larson -- The war on Iraq : a reporter's observations / Dana Hull -- America : the fourth reich / Barrie Zwicker -- War on Iraq and media coverage : a middle eastern perspective / Mahboub E. Hashem -- Iranians and media coverage of the war in Iraq : rhetoric, propaganda and -- Contradiction / Naiim Badii -- South Africa and Iraq : the battle for media reality / Arnold de Beer, Herman Wasserman, and Nicolene Botha -- Chinese watching the Iraqi War with shock and awe : as a spectacular game / Zhou He -- The self-absorbed bully : a Brazilian view of the United States at war / Antonio La Pastina -- Threat or ally? : U.S./Latin American relations and the Middle East conflict / Kathleen A. Tobin -- From propaganda to public diplomacy in the information age / R. S. Zaharna -- Can we make them love us: public diplomacy after 9/11? / Geoffrey Cowan -- War, media, and propaganda: an epilogue / Majid Tehranian.