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Degraded Capability : The Media and the Kosovo Crisis 🔍
London ; Sterling, Va.: Pluto Press, Pluto Press (Lightning Source), London, 2000
edited by Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman 🔍
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The media served a highly partisan and propagandistic role in Nato’s Kosovo war, uncritically reproducing official spin in a way that was incompatible with their proclaimed democratic role as objective purveyors of information. Degraded Capability integrates a critical interpretation of Western policy toward the former Yugoslavia with analysis of media coverage of the Kosovo crisis and war.
The first part of the book deals with the war itself and the build-up to it, placing this in the context of earlier Western intervention in Yugoslavia. Part two discusses key issues raised by the media coverage, including the demonisation of the enemy, and the role of CNN. In the final section, contributors analyse how the war was reported in different countries around the world, including the United States, Britain, Germany, India, Greece, Russia, and France.
The book is an important corrective to the hysteria and misinformation that permeated media coverage. Subjects covered include the role of the internet, the changing media-military relationship, the depiction and definition of ‘war crimes,’ and how Yugoslav television was presented as a legitimate military target.
Alternative author
Hammond, Phil, 1964- editor; Herman, Edward S., editor
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Philip Hammond, Harold Pinter, Diana Johnstone
Alternative author
Hammond, Philip; Herman, Edward S.
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Author
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Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
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Osberton Productions Ltd
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Ebsco Publishing
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United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom
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United States, United States of America
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London, Sterling, Va, England, 2000
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1st ed, London, 2000
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August 1, 2000
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1, 20000520
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216) and index.
Alternative description
The media served a highly partisan and propagandistic role in Natos Kosovo war, uncritically reproducing official spin in a way that was incompatible with their proclaimed democratic role as objective purveyors of information. Degraded Capability is the first book to integrate a critical interpretation of Western policy toward the former Yugoslavia with analysis of media coverage of the Kosovo crisis and war. The first part of the book deals with the war itself and the build-up to it, placing this in the context of earlier Western intervention in Yugoslavia. Part two discusses key issues raised by the media coverage, including the demonisation of the enemy, and the role of CNN. In the final section, contributors analyse how the war was reported in different countries around the world, including the United States, Britain, Germany, India, Greece, Russia, and France. The book offers an important corrective to the hysteria and misinformation that permeated media coverage. Subjects covered include the role of the internet, the changing media-military relationship, the depiction and definition of war crimes, and how Yugoslav television was presented as a legitimate military target. Contributors include John Pilger, Edward S. Herman, Phil Hammond, Diana Johnstone and Jim Naureckas.
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1 online resource (x, 222 pages)
'Required reading for anyone wishing to understand the war and the media's role in it.' The New Internationalist
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-216) and index
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
digitized 2011
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A number of distinguished international contributors critically interpret Western policy toward the former Yugoslavia and offer an analysis of media coverage of the Kosovo crisis and war in which truth became a fragile commodity on both sides
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2023-06-28
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