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Iraq media dossier

Radio Netherlands Media Network

13-04-2010

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Contents:

The build-up to war

• Background to the media war
• Domestic media in Iraq under Saddam Hussein

The players in the media war

• The war according to Iraqi TV
• Broadcasts by the Iraqi National Congress
• Broadcasts by other opposition groups
• External services broadcasting to Iraq
• Psychological warfare
  • Information Radio
  • Radio Tikrit(replaced by Radio Sumer on 21 April 2003)
  • Voice of Iraqi Liberation
  • Analysis: Bush address underscores importance of radio psyop
  • Analysis: New psyops freqs suggest emergence of northern front
  • Analysis: Hate radio targets Iraq
  • Comment/Analysis: The other Media Network
• Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Stations broadcasting to Iraqi Kurdistan
• Monitoring the Iraq crisis on shortwave and the Web

Media developments since the outbreak of war:

Aftermath and reconstruction

• The media in post-war Iraq 
• Mosul TV fights for independence

Internet

• The Internet under Saddam
  • Iraq back on the Net

Commentaries and analysis

• Commentary: reporting the war
• Analysis: the view from the sofa
• Commentary: Different directions
• Commentary: Media rebuilding in Iraq takes a knock

Related stories

• Shutting out the enemy

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