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Fully updated second edition. |
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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The War Correspondent looks at the role of the war reporter today: the attractions and the risks of the job; the challenge of objectivity and impartiality in the war zone; the danger that journalistic independence is being compromised by military control, censorship and public relations; as well as the commercial and technological pressures of an intensely concentrated, competitive news media environment. This new edition substantially updates the original, ending with an extended section on the return of history and ideology to the reporting of international conflict. It examines the 'war on terror' framework that dominated the first decade of the 21st Century and, as Russia imposes itself once again on the international stage, asks if it might well give way to a new, Cold War framework. If so, what will that mean for the new generation of war correspondents, attuned not to history or ideology but the politics of the next conflict? The book features interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Mary Dejevsky and Alex Thomson. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Part I. The war correspondent in historical perspective. 2. The war correspondent: risk, motivation and tradition -- 3. Journalism, objectivity and war -- 4. From luckless tribe to wireless tribe : the impact of media technologies on war reporting -- Part II. The war correspondent and the military. 5. Getting to know each other : from Crimea to Vietnam -- 6. Learning and forgetting : from the Falklands to the Gulf -- 7. Goodbye Vietnam Syndrome : the embed system in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Part III. The war correspondent and ideological frameworks -- 8. Reporting the Cold War and the New World Order -- 9. Reporting the ' War on Terror' and the return of the evil empire -- 10. Conclusions : 'Telling truth to power' -- the ultimate role of the war correspondent? |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
War -- Press coverage.
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War correspondents -- Interviews.
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Guerre -- Couverture de presse.
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Correspondants de guerre -- Entretiens.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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War correspondents. (OCoLC)fst01170456
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War -- Press coverage.
(OCoLC)fst01170359
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| Indexed Term |
Media and Communications |
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Journalism |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0745333192 9780745333199 (OCoLC)920729674 |
| ISBN |
9781783717583 (electronic bk.) |
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1783717580 (electronic bk.) |
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9781783717590 |
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1783717599 |
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0745333184 |
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9780745333182 |
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0745333192 |
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9780745333199 |
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9780745333182 |
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0745333184 |
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9781783717606 |
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9780745333182 |
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UKMGB 017847900 |
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