Ugly War, Pretty Package: How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept

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Ugly War Pretty Package Ugly War Pretty Package Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis How CNN and Fox News Made the Invasion of Iraq High Concept deborah L. jaramillo Publication of this book is made possible in part with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that supports research, education, and public programming in the humanities. This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA www.iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2009 by Deborah Jaramillo All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jaramillo, Deborah Lynn, dateUgly war, pretty package : how CNN and Fox News made the invasion of Iraq high concept / Deborah L. Jaramillo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-253-35363-4 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-253-22122-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Iraq War, 2003—Television and the war. 2. Television broadcasting of news—United States. 3. War in mass media. 4. Mass media—Objectivity— United States. I. Title. DS79.76.J373 2009 956.7044’31—dc22 2009008963 1 2 3 4 5 14 13 12 11 10 09 To my Harlingen family, my Austin family, and the family I fell in love with in Tucson ...