David Miller 
Tell Me Lies 
Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq

Did the US and UK governments lie about weapons of mass destruction to promote an attack on Iraq? Did the media hold them to account or act as cheerleaders for war?



Tell me Lies reveals the systematic propaganda used by both the US and UK governments to convince us of the ‘threat’ from Iraq. It shows how we were deliberately misled into a war that has resulted in a humanitarian disaster in Iraq and threatens to create further instability and resentment of the US and UK throughout the Middle East.



Written by some of the world’s leading journalists and commentators, it’s a scathing indictment of the role of the mainstream media in legitimising government actions and undermining dissent. Critics, activists and journalists from both sides of the Atlantic explore alternatives such as the internet and Al Jazeera and provide analysis and guidance on resisting the media war.



Contributors include John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Edward Herman, Mark Thomas, Mark Steel, and cartoonist Steve Bell amongst many others.

Tabella dei contenuti

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Mark Thomas

Introduction by David Miller

Part 1 The Media War

1. A great betrayal by John Pilger

2. The lies of old by John Pilger

3. The case for civil disobedience by John Pilger

4. Crime against humanity by John Pilger

5. The unthinkable is becoming normal by John Pilger

Part 2 Propaganda Wars

6. War is sell by Laura Miller, John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton 7. Brainscrubbing: The Failures of U.S. Public Diplomacy After 9/11 by Nancy Snow

8. Misreporting war has a long history by Des Freedman

9. Psychological warfare against the public: Iraq and

beyond by Mark Curtis

10. The Propaganda Machine by David Miller

11. History or bunkum? by Philip Knightley

12. Spies and lies by Stephen Dorril

13. No Blood for oil? by Andy Rowell

Part 3 Misreporting war

14. The minute it’s made up, you’ll hear about it by Mark Steel

15. Reporting the war on British television by Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes

16. 9/11, Spectacles of Terror, and Media Manipulation by Doug Kellner

17. ‘Look, I’m An American’ by Norman Solomon

18. ‘Let the Atrocious Images Haunt Us’ by Julian Petley

19. Normalising aggression by Ed Herman

20. Little Ali and other rescued children by Patricia Holland

21. Watchdogs or Lapdogs? by Granville Williams

22. The BBC: A personal account by Abdul Hadi Jiad

23. Mass Deception: How The Media Helped The Government Deceive The People by David Cromwell & David Edwards

24. Covering the Middle East by Robert Fisk

25. Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian story by Tim Llewellyn

26. Black holes of history by Greg Philo and Maureen Gilmour

Part 4 Alternatives

27. Al Jazeera’s war by Faisal Bodi

28. Target the media by Tim Gopsill

29. Turning my back on the mainstream by Yvonne Ridley

30. Working in and against the system by David Crouch

31. Disruptive Technology: Iraq and the Internet by Alistair Alexander

32. The anti-war movement by Noam Chomsky

Circa l’autore

David Miller is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. He is the co-editor of What is Islamophobia? (Pluto, 2017) and the author of Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy (Pluto, 2007) and A Century of Spin (Pluto, 2007).