El papel de la prensa norteamericana en la guerra contra Irak

Abstract

Journalism objectivity was deeply wounded during the war against Irak. The United States planned the war from all the fronts, and one of them was the informative one. Pressed by the biggest mass media, the American Government accepted –opposite to what had happened during the Persian Gulf War- a group of journalists to go beside the troops. Although there was an apparent liberty of expression, the journalists were submitted to certain rules and conditions that actually restricted their work. At last, American people saw a different war from the one seen in other countries: a one faction war, in which nationalism was first than the truth of information.