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Mass Deception : Moral Panic and the U.S. War on Iraq / Scott A. Bonn.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Issues in Crime and SocietyPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) : 12Content type:
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  • 9780813547886
  • 9780813549965
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS79.76 .B657 2010
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. George W. Bush and the Drums of War -- Chapter 2. Why Do Many in Society Drink the Kool-Aid Served in a Moral Panic? -- Chapter 3. Empirical Evidence of an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic over Iraq -- Chapter 4. How the Bush Administration Sold the Iraq War to the U.S. Public -- Chapter 5. The Power Elite, State Crime, and War Crime -- Chapter 6. The Higher Immorality and Crimes of the Bush Administration -- Chapter 7. What Are the Lessons of the Iraq War? -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: The attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that the nation's leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osama bin Laden nor proof of weapons of mass destruction. Why, then, did the Iraq war garner so much acceptance in the United States during its primary stages? Mass Deception argues that the George W. Bush administration manufactured public support for the war on Iraq. Scott A. Bonn introduces a unique, integrated, and interdisciplinary theory called "critical communication" to explain how and why political elites and the news media periodically create public panics that benefit both parties. Using quantitative analysis of public opinion polls and presidential rhetoric pre- and post-9/11 in the news media, Bonn applies the moral panic concept to the Iraq war. He critiques the war and occupation of Iraq as violations of domestic and international law. Finally, Mass Deception connects propaganda and distortion efforts by the Bush administration to more general theories of elite deviance and state crime.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. George W. Bush and the Drums of War -- Chapter 2. Why Do Many in Society Drink the Kool-Aid Served in a Moral Panic? -- Chapter 3. Empirical Evidence of an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic over Iraq -- Chapter 4. How the Bush Administration Sold the Iraq War to the U.S. Public -- Chapter 5. The Power Elite, State Crime, and War Crime -- Chapter 6. The Higher Immorality and Crimes of the Bush Administration -- Chapter 7. What Are the Lessons of the Iraq War? -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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The attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that the nation's leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osama bin Laden nor proof of weapons of mass destruction. Why, then, did the Iraq war garner so much acceptance in the United States during its primary stages? Mass Deception argues that the George W. Bush administration manufactured public support for the war on Iraq. Scott A. Bonn introduces a unique, integrated, and interdisciplinary theory called "critical communication" to explain how and why political elites and the news media periodically create public panics that benefit both parties. Using quantitative analysis of public opinion polls and presidential rhetoric pre- and post-9/11 in the news media, Bonn applies the moral panic concept to the Iraq war. He critiques the war and occupation of Iraq as violations of domestic and international law. Finally, Mass Deception connects propaganda and distortion efforts by the Bush administration to more general theories of elite deviance and state crime.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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