Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-245) and 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.

"This timely book presents a multi-facetted and global discussion of war, media, and propaganda. Focusing on the media's role in global conflicts, an international cast of prominent authors, journalists, scholars, and researchers provides an overview of the impact of globalization on media practices. The authors explore the effects of global media coverage on human affairs and communication, as well as the cultural-political implications for the United States and around the world." Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.