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This article examines the human rights legal foundation for 'media intervention' (also known as 'information intervention') conceived of as part of rebuilding post-conflict societies. The media space is a critical site for post-conflict reconstruction, particularly when factional clashes and violence persist after war, as in the present case of Iraq. Media/information intervention refers to the means of getting involved in a humanitarian crisis where there is evidence that the media have been manipulated to incite hatred and violence. It will be demonstrated that media intervention as a practice has ambiguous legal support in international law, due to the conflict between the jus cogens principle of non-intervention and the limited derogation of that principle provided for by Chapter VII of the UN Charter and Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It will be argued that between an absolute prohibition of intervention and a set of specific conditions allowing intervention, lies a small window of opportunity--a discursively available 'limited exceptionalism'--for cultivating a media space that respects human rights.