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cating satellite photos showing that the alleged massing of Iraqi troops on the
Saudi border was disinformation.
17 See John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1992), Ch. 2, “Selling Babies,” pp. 37-77.
18 See, e.g., “The Times and Iraq,” The Editors, New York Times, May 26, 2004, and
“The Times and Iraq: A Sample of the Coverage,” The Editors, New York Times,
May, 2004,
; Howard Kurtz, “The Post on WMDs: An Inside Story,” Washington
Post, August 12, 2004; Michael Massing, “Now They Tell Us,” New York
Review of Books, February 26, 2004; Michael Massing, “Unfit to Print?” New York
Review of Books, June 24, 2004; and Mark Danner, “The Secret Way to War,”
New York Review of Books, June 9, 2005.
19 Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina
and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (Boston: South End Press, 1979), Ch.
6, “Cambodia,” pp. 135-294; Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing
Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, 2nd. Ed. (New York:
Pantheon Books, 2002), Ch. 6.2, “Cambodia,” pp. 260-296.
20 See Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead, The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian
Connection (New York: Sheridan Square Publications, 1986); Herman and
Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, Ch. 4, “The KGB-Bulgarian Plot to Kill the
Pope: Free-Market Disinformation as ‘News’,” pp. 143-167.
21 On the way the international context and direct pressures from Western powers
impelled Yugoslavia towards its violent breakup, see David Chandler, “Western
Intervention and the Disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1989-1999,” in Philip Hammond
and Edward S. Herman, Eds., Degraded Capability: The Media and the
Kosovo Crisis (Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2000), pp. 19-30; Johnstone, Fools’ Crusade,
pp. 34-50; Mandel, How America Gets Away with Murder, pp. 65-88; and
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, “The Dismantling of Yugoslavia,”
Monthly Review, Vol. 59, No. 5, October, 2007, pp. 4-9, .
22 See Peter Brock, Media Cleansing: Dirty Reporting, Journalism and Tragedy in Yugoslavia
(Los Angeles: GMBooks, 2005); and L.T.C. John E. Sray, “Selling the
Bosnian Myth to America: Buyer Beware,” Foreign Military Studies Office, Department
of the Army, October, 1995, .
23 The media repeatedly claimed that the UN and NATO had failed through lack
of “moral courage,” “political will,” “dithering,” and were even “an accomplice of
Serb aggression” (“The Meaning of Srebrenica,” Editorial, Washington Post, July
13, 1995; Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, July 7, 1996; Roger Cohen, “Failure
in Bosnia,” New York Times, April 18, 1993). In a statement delivered on his behalf
at the 10th anniversary memorial held at Potocari on July 11, 2005, UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan lamented the “serious errors of judgement rooted
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