This uniquely comprehensive assessment of the role of the media before, during and after wars draws on examples from the 20th century's total wars as well as li
News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often
The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered
Mass communication is used by governments to support their war efforts while media images are created or manipulated to inform, persuade or guide the consumers
`No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media's relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power