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• Title:War spin [electronic resource (video)] : media and Iraq war / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2005], c2003.
  
• Physical Description:1 streaming video file (46 min.) : sd., col., digital.
  
• Links:Streaming video
  

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  • Location:Yale Internet Resource
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  • Call Number: None
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes: Online resource
    

   
• Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
  
• Notes:Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 12, 2005.
  Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
  Title from distributor's description.
  
• Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
• Summary:Some stories are simply too good to be true. In this program, John Kampfner, political editor for the New Statesman (London), skewers heroic reports of the ambush, capture, and rescue of Private Jessica Lynch, calling them misrepresentations designed to bolster wavering support for the Iraq War. Kampfner also scrutinizes the controversial practice of embedding members of the news media in military units and questions the sincerity and overall informational value of the daily CentCom briefings in Doha. An ideal springboard for discussions about propaganda, media ethics, and journalism in the modern combat zone.
  
• Variant and related titles:Media and Iraq war
  Films on demand.
  
• Other formats:Original produced: War Spin BBC Worldwide Ltd., 2003
  
• Format:Visual Material
• System details note:Mode of access: Internet.
  System requirements: FOD playback platform.
  
• Contents:Through American Eyes (4:08) -- One Story but Two Versions (5:31) -- War Media Strategy (3:57) -- Hollywood and the Pentagon (2:16) -- Embedded Journalists (4:11) -- Central Command (5:13) -- Basra Uprising (6:11) -- Independent Journalists (5:30) -- Weapons of Mass Destruction (3:48) -- News Media Management (3:10)
  
• Subjects:Art--Political aspects.
  Journalism.
  Mass media and culture.
  Mass media--Political aspects.
  Mass media--Social aspects.
  Political participation--United States.
  Publishing.
  United States--History--21st century.
  
• Genre/Form:Educational films.
  Internet videos.
  
• Also listed under:BBC Worldwide Ltd.
  Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
  Infobase.