The war correspondent

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 of journalistic independence being compromised by military control, censorship, and public relations; as well as the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McLaughlin, Greg, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press 2016
2016.
Edición:Second edition
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423736306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The war correspondent in historical perspective. 1. Introduction
  • 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?