Medijska agresija - studija slučaja Irak 2002/2003. godine

Abstract

The United States campaign led by the George W. Bush administration against Iraq was accompanied by media reporting that is unprecedented in the history so far. This media coverage, however, was, in most cases, unilateral and biased and it essentially had the role of a propaganda campaign that satanised Iraq and its state leadership, while simultaneously exaggerating the military capabilities of this country. After more than a year of intense propaganda, the campaign culminated in the war and the occupation of Iraq, and the media also played an important role at this stage of the attack on Iraq, this time as an informative escort for military operations aimed at achieving psychological effects in the national, foreign and oppositional auditors. The experiences from this period show that intense media destruction of the credibility of a state and its government can lead to the physical destruction of such state, which imposes the conclusion that in the modern world, that is the information age, the media can be one of the means of aggression against sovereign states.