Iraq 5 years on: How the media sells war and why

Media Workers Against the War: London Rally, Thursday April 10,

With speakers: Dahr Jamail, independent journalist in Iraq and author of ‘Beyond the Green Zone', Nick Davies, award-winning Guardian journalist and author of ‘Flat Earth News', Kim Sengupta, defence and diplomatic correspondent, the Independent, Lindsey German, national convenor, Stop the War Coalition.

Venue:
The Old Lecture Theatre
Westminster University
309 Regent Street
(2 mins from Oxford Circus)

Date and time: Thursday April 10, 7pm

Hosted by: Media Workers Against the War www.mwaw.net

Tickets: £5, £3 (concessions)

On April 9, 2003, Baghdad "fell" to US troops. The event was welcomed by a torrent of gushing media coverage. When Saddam's statue was toppled that day in Firdoz Square, the British media unleashed a string of superlatives.

Five years on, we have to ask: why did the media get it so wrong? How can we avoid similar mistakes in the future? How is current coverage of the "war on terror" to be judged?

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