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Informationen zum Autor Calvin F. Exoo is Professor and Chair of Government at St. Lawrence University. He is also the author of Democracy Upside Down: Public Opinion and Cultural Hegemony in the United States and of The Politics of the Mass Media. His numerous articles on the politics of the mass media have appeared in such publications as Polity, New Political Science, The Journal of Ethnic Studies, The New York Times, The Times (London), The Baltimore Evening Sun, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2006, Exoo was selected as a Saul Sidore Lecturer at Plymouth State University, and in 2009, he was named Outstanding Faculty Member by the senior class at St.Lawrence University. Klappentext An eye-opening case study of the news at war, introducing a critical perspective on our mass mediaThe Pen and the Sword is the only comprehensive examination of how the media have covered the 21st Century's #1 news story: terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the full story-from 9/11 to the Obama doctrine, and including:The war in Afghanistan. There were two sides to this story, but the press told only one, and the untold story would return to haunt us. The campaign for war in Iraq. What did the press know and when did they know it about the web of lies that led us into war?Iraq, from invasion to "Mission Accomplished." When the story of war is told as patriotic hymn, Playstation game, or melodrama of macho heroes and bad guys dressed in black, important things are left out.Aftermath, from "Mission Accomplished" to the present. Something has changed since the Vietnam War, when the press finally found its critical voice. However, the 21st Century media continue to cling to an untenable, pro-war story, even after the public has abandoned it. The Pen and the Sword uses this tragic and eye-opening case study of the news at war to ask, "Why?" and to offer a critical perspective on our mass media, including the latest information on the underpinnings of the news business-corporate ownership, the power of elites to define the news-and adds three important new features of the media landscape: The media profit crisis of the late '00s and how it is affecting the news. The creation and mainstreaming of a new right-wing media surround-sound system. The increasing importance of entertainment media and soft news in shaping our views. Zusammenfassung Cutting edge! student friendly exploration of the relationship between media and politics! relying on a comprehensive review of the news coverage of the wars in Afghanistand and Iraq as case study. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Media, Democracy, Hegemony Democracy and the Press The Theory of Cultural Hegemony America's Place in the World: The Hegemonic Story Another Story: American Empire Our Manichean Media Americans and American Empire 2. Night Falls: 9/11 and the Afghan War "All Changed, Changed Utterly" From Multilogue to Monologue The Entertainment Media Enlist The Bombing Begins Happy Days Are Here Again: Burkhas Off, Music On! Return of the Taliban 3. Iraq: War Comes to the "City of Peace" Vulcanized War Drums: Fall 2002 Final Stretch You Don't Say The Entertainment Media Reenlist Endgame 4. "And the Lord Did Shock and Awe Them That Blasphemed Him" Power and Glory The Official Story Embedding: A Pre-History Embedded The Unembedded: At Risk and At Sea Kodak Moments More Inconvenient Facts, More Obfuscation "Mission Accomplished" 5. Aftermath: "What Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at Last . . . " Pictures from "The Dark Side" A Casualty Story Becomes a Casualty The Blood- Dimmed Tide Obama and Beyond 6. Why? The Commercial Imperative Establishment Sources Mainstreaming the Right ...
