Talk:Lila Rajiva
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[edit] Comments/updates from Rajiva
From a March 2006 email:
1. I have written for several print magazines - Gowanus Review, Baltimore Chronicle, Himal South Asia, and India West among others. 2. I have written for (or been reprinted on) Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Common Dreams, Alternet, Lew Rockwell, Antiwar, Rational Review, and numerous other net outlets (not counting blogs). 3. I have published in academic journals - RuBrica (Journal of Philosophy of Moscow University), Michigan State University, Institute for Conflict and Peace Studies (New Delhi) 4. The reviews on the back of the book were publisher elicited but there is a review on Reclaim the Media (a media organization) as well as a customer review. The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media by Lila Rajiva [Monthly Review]. Independent journalist Rajiva's first book offers a detailed, systematic attempt to understand how establishment media coverage of the Iraq war has dulled, rather than sharpened, American public conscience. The book is a model of in-depth, citizen media analysis, not only skewering craven propagandists like Hannity and Limbaugh, but also revealing the shameful and often racist double standards which have undergirded mainstream war coverage. Going deeper, Rajiva distinguishes and interrrogates many different modes our media has used to shape responses to violence and torture: scandal, melodrama, legalism, pornography, and archetypal mythology. Ultimately, she rejects all of them as incapable of serving democratic rather than corporate/totalitarian values; in her last pages she expresses her hope for the continued expansion of critical citizen journalism as an alternative. -jl I have not actually had the time to pursue reviewers at this time. Hopefully there should be more soon. I also believe the topic and my outsider status might be complicating factors. 5. I am currently a contributor to a Seal Press Anthology "One of the Guys: Female Torturers at Abu Ghraib and Beyond" (Ed. Tara McKelvey. Sr. Ed. American Prospect Magazine) due in 2006. 6. I am currently co-authoring a book, "The Public Spectacle," with noted financial author, Bill Bonner, due from John Wiley at the end of 2006.
I began writing in 2004.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sj (talk • contribs) .
