Piers Robinson: 2 books
The CNN Effect
The Myth of News, Foreign Policy and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
The CNN Effect examines the relationship between the state and its media, and considers the role played by the news reporting in a series of 'humanitarian' interventions in Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda. Piers Robinson challenges traditional views of media subservience and argues that sympathetic...
Pockets of resistance
British news media, war and theory in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.