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International Relations • Political Communication
“Anthony R. DiMaggio’s Mass Media, Mass Propaganda is a much-needed text documenting the increasing
evidence that corporate media is fully embedded with the Global Dominance Group of the U.S. military industrial
complex. His message is a significant addition to the overwhelming evidence for corporate media’s complicity in
war and its full service as a propaganda machine for the powerful.” —PETER PHILLIPS, director of Project
MASS PROPAGANDA
Censored, Sonoma State University
“Mass Media, Mass Propaganda is a superb contribution to the literature on media coverage of the current war in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Anthony R. DiMaggio’s thorough analysis is unparalleled in any other work I have seen. This
book is a must read for anyone interested in the media. The author’s plea for a democratic media is well placed after
a detailed examination of how the media in this country has failed in its responsibilities toward its consumers.”
—JAMAL R. NASSAR, dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
California State University, San Bernardino DiMAGGIO MASS MEDIA,
“Lucidly written and broadly researched, Anthony R. DiMaggio’s book is an excellent exposé of how mainstream
media use conceptual evasion and informational manipulation to serve the empire.” —MICHAEL PARENTI,
author of Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
“If history ever judges the folly of our times, it will not pass lightly over the complicity of our media in our disas-
trous ‘Wars of Error,’ so carefully detailed and documented with adroit scholarship by Anthony R. DiMaggio. His
book will drive many journalists to hang his or her head in shame and seek atonement through more thoughtful
and critical work. This is a brave and important book by one conscious of academe. It could be cited on the
tombstone of irresponsible corporate media.” —DANNY SCHECHTER, news dissector, executive editor of MASS MEDIA, MASS PROPAGANDA
MediaChannel.org, and director of WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
Mass Media, Mass Propaganda analyzes a wide range of issues, domestic and international, concerning
American and global news coverage of the U.S. “War on Terror.” Topics reviewed include media coverage of the
invasion and occupation of Iraq, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Iraqi civil war and resistance
to occupation, September 11th and “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan, human rights violations in
Iraq, domestic anti-war dissent and censorship, and potential future targets in the “War on Terror.”

This work approaches the study of media through a political economy analysis, examining the ways in which the
American corporate media work to reinforce official views and propaganda, and the ways in which it challenges
official pro-war platforms. A comparative approach is taken in contrasting the American mass media with
other media institutions from the Progressive-Left American press, the British and Australian press, and Arab
electronic media.
EXAMINING AMERICAN NEWS
ANTHONY R. DiMAGGIO has taught American government and Middle East politics at Illinois State University.

IN THE “WAR ON TERROR”
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