Introduction : Rules of engagement : journalism and war -- Part 1. War in the 21st century -- Understanding : the second casualty / Oliver Boyd-Barrett -- Information warfare in an age of hyber-militarism / Richard Keeble -- A moral imagination : the media's tesponse to the war on terrorism / Susan D. Moeller -- The p.r. of terror : how new-style wars give voice to terrorists / Tamar Liebes and Zohar Kampf -- Researching US media-state relations and 21st century wars / Piers Robinson -- Part 2. Bearing witness -- When war is reduced to a photograph / Barbie Zelizer -- The Persian Gulf TV war revisited / Douglas Kellner -- Tribalism and tribulation : media constructions of "African savagery" and "western humanitarianism" in the 1990s / Susan L. Carruthers -- Humanising war : the Balkans and beyond / Philip Hammond -- Prisoners of news values? : journalists, professionalism and identification in times of war / Howard Tumber -- Out of sight, out of mind? : the non-reporting of small wars and insurgencies / Prasun Sonwalkar -- The battlefield is the media : war reporting and the formation of national identity in Australia -- from Belmont to Baghdad / Michael Bromley -- Part 3. Reporting the Iraq War -- Militarized journalism : framing dissent in the Persian Gulf wars / Stephen D. Reese -- War or peace? : legitimation, dissent and rhetorical closure in press coverage of the Iraq war build-up / Nick Couldry and John Downey -- How British television news represented the case for the war in Iraq / Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes -- European news agencies and their sources in the Iraq war coverage / Terhi Tantanen -- Al-Jazeera and war coverage in Iraq : the quest for contextual objectivity / Adel Iskandar and Mohammed El-Naway -- Big media and little media : the journalistic informal sector during the invasion of Iraq / Patricia Aufderheide -- The culture of distance : online journalism and the Iraq war / Stuart Allan.