Piers Robinson is Professor of Politics, Society and Political Journalism, at the Department of Journalism Studies, at the University of Sheffield. His current research explores organized persuasive communication and contemporary propaganda as well as the role of communications and media in relation to international politics. He is author of the CNN Effect: the myth of news, foreign policy and intervention (2002, Routledge, London and New York) and co-author of Pockets of Resistance: British News Media, War and Theory in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq (2010, University of Manchester Press).