Between the Lies
Subtitle: Rise of the media-military-industrial complex
Edition: 2nd (Revised edition)
Publisher: Southern Universities Press
Published: October 2007
Place of publication: London
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780954580568
Subjects: Media studies; Historiography
Genres: War
First sentence: Many people revel in what they assume is the romance of war, as an escape from a humdrum daily existence, and their sponsors in the mass media have contributed to popular feeble-mindedness in this regard.
Description: This book analyses the symbiosis between armaments manufacturers and the mass communication industries. It uncovers the dynamics that exist between media, ideology and military power in the conditioning of core public attitudes and beliefs. The work explains how public consent and political legitimacy has been achieved for the conduct of large-scale military operations, from the Anglo-Boer war of more than 100 years ago to the present-day "war on terror". This continuum of conflict is underpinned by deliberate distortions of reality through the manipulation and compliance of news and information media. Specific sections of the book relate to World Wars I and II; the Cold War; Korean war; Vietnam; Gulf Wars I and II; war in former Yugoslavia; various undeclared or "low-intensity" wars in Africa and Latin America; and the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fully annotated with Index.

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