Sucking up
Michael Rogin, 12 May 1994
Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War
by John MacArthur.
California, 274 pp., £10, January 1994,0 520 08398 9 Show More
by John MacArthur.
California, 274 pp., £10, January 1994,
Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad – 35 Years in the World’s War Zones
by Peter Arnett.
Bloomsbury, 463 pp., £17.99, March 1994,0 7475 1680 4 Show More
by Peter Arnett.
Bloomsbury, 463 pp., £17.99, March 1994,
“... hundreds of babies from Kuwaiti incubators. It ignored the story that the public relations firm of Hill and Knowlton, paid millions of dollars by Kuwait, had orchestrated the television testimonies to the alleged atrocity, that the unidentified female eyewitness was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, and that the only documented ... ”