International Conflict and the Media
Media and Conflict
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield; From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Aronson, James. The Press and the Cold War. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970.
Battle Lines: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Military and Media. New York: Priority Press Publications, 1985.
Bennett, W. Lance and David L. Paletz, eds. Taken by Storm; The Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Cumings, Bruce. War and Television. New York: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1994.
DeMello, Ed. At the Expense of Victory: A Desert Storm Diary of News Media Coverage. Fairview, New Jersey: Kenobi Productions, 1994.
Denton, Robert, Jr., ed. The Media and the Persian Gulf War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993.
Fialka, John J. Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War. Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/John Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Greenberg, S. Bradley and Walter Gantz, eds. Desert Storm and the Mass Media. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 1993.
Kellner, Douglas. The Persian Gulf TV War. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1992.
Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist and Myth Maker. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
MacArthur, John R. Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.
The Media at War: The Press and the Persian Gulf Conflict. New York: Gannett Foundation Media Center, June 1991.
Media and the Gulf War: A Case Study. Weston, Ontario: Association for Media Literacy, 1991.
"The Media: In War and Peace," Media & Values, (Fall 1991): 1-24.
Morrison, David E. Television and the Gulf War. London: John Libbey, 1992.
Mowlana, Hamid, George Gerbner and Herbert I. Schiller, eds. Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf--A Global Perspective. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.
Pentagon Rules on Media Access to the Persian Gulf War. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Smith, Hedrick, ed. The Media and the Gulf War: The Press and Democracy in Wartime. Washington, DC: Seven Locks Press, 1992.
Thompson, Alex, Smokescreen: The Media, the Censors, The Gulf. Tunbridge Wells, Kent:
Laburnham Books and Spellmount Ltd., 1992.
International Conflict Teaching Units
Davis, James E. and James S. Eckenrod. Managing World Conflict: A Resource Unit for High Schools. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 1994.
Mingst, Karen A. "Managing International Conflict: An Overview."
The Gulf War, Books, Reports and Articles
Accuracy in Media. AIM Report, "How Not to Win the War," February-A, 1991; "Coverage of the Coverage," February-B, 1991, "Gulf Victory "Made in the USA," April-A 1991; "War and Media," June-A 1991; "PBS: At Saddam's Service," November-B, 1991
Allen, Thomas B., F. Clifton Berry and Norman Polmar. CNN War in the Gulf; From the Invasion of Kuwait to the Day of Victory and Beyond. Atlanta: Turner Publishing, Inc., 1991.
Atkinson, Rick. Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Bresheeth, Haim and Nira Yuval-Davis, eds. The Gulf War and the New World Order. London and New Jersey: Zed Books, Ltd., 1991.
Brittain, Victoria, ed. The Gulf Between US: The Gulf War and Beyond. London: Virago Press,
1991.
Campbell, David. Politics Without Principle; Sovereignty, Ethics, and the Narratives of the Gulf War. Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993.
Carroll, Vincent. "The Scarcity of Anti-War Editorial Voices," Washington Journalism Review(January/February 1991).
DeParle, Jason. "Covering the War," New York Times, Two Part Series, May 5, 1991, p. 1 and 20; May 6, 1991, p. 9.
Emery, Michael. "The War that Didn't Have to Happen," Village Voice, March 5, 1991.
Freedman, Lawrence and Efraim Karsh. The Gulf Conflict 1990-1991; Diplomacy and War in the New World Order. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Hitchens, Christopher. "Why We Are Stuck in the Sand," Harper's Magazine (January 1991).
Hybel, Alex Roberto. Power over Rationality: The Bush Administration and the Gulf Crisis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.
Lamb, David. "Pentagon Hardball," Washington Journalism Review (April 1991).
Lapham, Lewis. "Trained Seals and Sitting Ducks," Harper's Magazine (May 1991).
MacArthur, John R. Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.
McCain, Thomas and Leonard Shyles. The 1,000 Hour War; Communication in the Gulf. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
Middle East Watch. "Kuwait's 'Stolen' Incubators: The Widespread Repercussions of a Murky Incident." New York: Human Rights Watch, February 6, 1992.
Middle East Watch Report. Needless Deaths in the Gulf; Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War. New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991.
Mueller, John. Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Price, David Andrew. "Baghdad Gasbag," American Spectator, (February 1994): 61-63.
Salinger, Pierre and Eric Laurent. Secret Dossier. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Schreiber, Norman. "Management under Fire: The Paradigm of Desert Storm," Management Review, 80 (November 1991): 10-15.
Sifry, Micah and Christopher Cerf, eds. The Gulf War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. New York: Times Books, Random House, 1991.
Smith, J. C. George Bush's War. New York: Henry Holt, 1992.
Spitzer, T. Quinn, and Peter M. Tobia. "Lessons to Bring Home From Wars and Recessions," Management Review, 80 (November 1991): 16-19.
U.S. News & World Report. Triumph without Victory: The Unreported History of the Persian Gulf War. New York Times Books, 1992.
Village Voice, August 1990-April 1991.
Woodward, Bob. The Commanders. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
World Press Review, August 1990-June 1991.
Videos on the Gulf War
"Desert Triumph," (1991) CBS Documentary.
"Lines in the Sand," and the study guide "Images of Conflict: A Media Literacy Workshop," by the Center for Media and Values 1991. Available by Griffith-Wirth Associates, 168 Parkway Drive, Syracuse, NY 13207; (315) 476-3396.
"The Press and the Pentagon," (1995) The Center for Defense Information, 1500 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W., Washington, DC 20005; (202) 862-0700.
General Works
Allen, Robert and Lorne Greene. The Propaganda Game, Second ed. New Haven, Connecticut: AIM, 1970.
Bahmueller, Charles. Civitas: A Framework for Civic Education. Calabasas, California: Center for Civic Education, 1991.
Emery, Michael and Edwin Emery. The Press and America: An Interpretative History of the Mass Media, Seventh ed. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1992.
Grenville, J. A. S. A History of the World in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Jowett, G. S. and Victoria O'Donnell, Propaganda and Persuasion, Second ed. Newbury Park,
California: Sage Press, 1992
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extension of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Savant, Marilyn Vos. The Power of Logical Thinking. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Organizations
Accuracy in Media, Inc.
1275 K Street, N.W., Suite 1150
Washington, DC 20005
The American Forum for Global Education
120 Wall Street, Suite 2600
New York, NY 10005
Association for Media Literacy
40 McArthur Street
Weston, Ontario M9P 3M7
Center for War, Peace and the News Media
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
New York University
10 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
Center for Defense Information
1500 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
United States Institute of Peace
1550 M Street N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Vanderbilt TV News Archive
102 21st Ave. South, Suite 704
Nashville, TN 37203
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