Television and the 1991 Gulf War

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The paper relates that military control over the media, used to assert power and regulate content, is an instrument of war. This paper explains, whereas Iraq was only a small, developing nation that posed little threat to the United States, many considered Hussein to be a serious danger to the American way of life; Hussein was made a scapegoat. The author points out that the media helped downplay the devastation by focusing national attention on atrocities by Iraqi occupiers in Kuwait, rather than on attacks by the Allied coalition.

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"The next phase of media propaganda began with the start of armed conflict between Iraq and the US on January 16, 1991. Weeks of aerial bombardment followed until, on February 23, a ground attack was launched that forced Iraqi forces out of Kuwait and positions in southern Iraq. The assault lasted only one hundred hours with President Bush announcing a ceasefire once it was over. The American losses were ") and 467 wounded. Iraqi deaths, never calculated, are estimated to be as high as two hundred thousand."

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