The Media and the War on Terrorism

1 Introduction

PART ONE The Media and the Government: World War II to the End of the Twentieth Century

2 Lessons of Wars Past by Peter Arnett, Stanley Karnow, Ted Koppel, Daniel Schorr, and Barry Zorthian

3 Presidential Press Secretaries by Joe Lockhart, Michael McCurrry, Dee Dee Myers, and Ron Nessen

4 National Security Decisionmakers by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, James R. Schlesinger, and R. James Woolsey

5 The CNN Effect by Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Claus Kleber, Steven Livingston and Judy Woodruff

PART TWO War in Afghanistan: The Early Stages

6 The Pentagon and the Press by Victoria Clarke, Pentagon Military Officials, and Washington News Bureau Chiefs

7 Three Months Later by Victoria Clarke, Michael Getler, Bernard Kalb, Sanford J. Ungar

PART THREE The Journalist's Dilemma: Three Stories

8 The Hart-Rudman Commission Report by Thomas Kunkel, Susan Page, Warren B. Rudman, and Bob Schieffer

9 The Anthrax Attacks and Bioterrorism by Ceci Connolly, Susan Dentzer, Kevin Keane, and Jonathan B. Tucker

10 Dissent by Alex Arriaga, Peter D. Hart, Mark Jurkowitz, Geneva Overholser, and Robert Siegel

PART FOUR Reporting from the Field: Three Sites

11 Afghanistan by Michael Gordon, Carol Morello, Lois Raimondo, Tom Squitieri, and Kevin Whitelaw

12 The Middle East by Glenn Frankel, Todd Purdum, David Shipler, and Robin Wright

13 Foreign Correspondents in Washington by Hafez Al-Mirazi, Jose Carreno, Yasemin Congar, Toby Harnden, Rudiger Lentz, Jean-Jacques Mevel, and Andrei K. Sitov

PART FIVE From Different Perspectives

14 Public Diplomacy or Propaganda? by Karen De Young, Thomas A. Dine, Joseph Duffey, and Christopher Ross

15 Congress by Candy Crowley, Thomas Donilon, Mort Kondracke, and James Lindsay

16 Public Opinion by Jill Abramson, David S. Broder, Margaret Carlson, Andrew Kohut, William Kristol, and Tom Rosenstiel

17 Overview by Llyod N. Cutler, Lee H. Hamilton, Harry C. McPherson, and James Sasser

PART SIX 9/11 and Beyond

18 Running toward Danger by E.J. Dionne Jr., John McWethy, Alan Murray, and Alicia C. Shepard