----- Original Message ----- From: "michael pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net> To: <pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu> Cc: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 4:51 PM Subject: [PEN-L:20662] RE: Robert Jensen Reviews _Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis_
http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/times/010shaw.htm
Mediating denial
Philip Hammond and Edward S. Herman, editors, Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis, London: Pluto, 2000.
Contents: 'The West's destruction of Yugoslavia'/ The origins of denial /Denying Serbian slaughter in Kosovo /Denying genocide /Denigrating the Tribunal /Indicting the media
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In twenty-first century war, media are battlefields. Truth is ever more the first casualty, as the editors of this book affirm. And yet their collection bears witness to this in a sense they do not intend. For those who would expose a simple 'truth' in complex situations often perpetrate a distortion quite as fundamental as the media they criticize.
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Exactly: what's the truth that is the casualty? Underdetermination with a vengeance, precisely what leads to conflicting analyses in the first place....................
Ian