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(2002)
The war correspondent
by Greg McLaughlin
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: PART I: The War Correspondent in History
1 Introduction 3
2 The War Correspondent 6
Motivation 6 Tradition 19 Concluding Remarks 23
3 From Telegraph to Satellite: The Impact of Media Technology on War Reporting 24
The Telegraph 25 Photography 29 Newsreel Film 34
Radio 35 Television 38 Satellite, cable and the digital information age 40 Concluding Remarks 44
PART II: The War Correspondent in the War Zone
4 Journalists in the War Zone: From Crimea to Korea 47
The Crimean War, 1854-56 49 The American Civil War,1861-65 51
From the 'Golden Age' to World War, 1865-1914 54
The Second World War, 1939-45 63
The Korean War, 1950-53 68 Concluding Remarks 71
5 Journalists and the Military since Vietnam 73
The Vietnam War, 1965-75 73 The Falklands War,1982 78
Direct censorship and control of the news media by the MoD in the South Atlantic 79
Restraints imposed by the lobby briefing system 79
Self-censorship by journalists 80
Implications 81
The American Invasion of Grenada, 1983 83
The American Invasion of Panama, 1989 86
The Persian Gulf War, 1991 88
The news pools 89
The briefings and news conferences 93
Media responses to Iraqi propaganda in the Persian Gulf War 95
Bosnia and the 'Embedded Media' 97
Concluding Remarks 99
6 Lessons Learned? The Media, the Military and the Kosovo Crisis 103
Bombing Iraq, 1998 103
Bombing Serbia, 1999 108
Claim and counterclaim: TV news assesses the evidence 112
Concluding Remarks 122
PART III: The War Correspondent in Crisis
7 Reporting the Cold War and the New World Order 127
The Cold War and the Enemy Image 131 Reporting
nuclear disarmament and the peace movement 134 The
impact of glasnost and perestroika on the enemy
image 137 News in a Post-Cold War Era: A Crisis in the
Journalistic Framework 141 'Don't tread on us' 150
Concluding Remarks 151
8 War, Objectivity and the Journalism of Attachment 153
'The Facts Belong to History': Objectivity and its
Origins 155 Objectivity Under Fire 161 War and the
New Journalism 163 'A Twisted Sort of Therapy': The
Journalism of Attachment Critique 166 'Honest
Journalism' and the 'Attitude of Clarity' 177 Concluding
Remarks 180
9 'Something Must Be Done' Journalism 182
Media Attention 184 Media Influence on Policy-Making
188 Information and Information Management 194
Concluding Remarks 196
PART IV: Conclusions
10 Conclusion 201
Appendix 1 Recommendations to News Organisations for
Journalists' Safety 208
Appendix 2 Surviving Hostile Regions 209
Appendix 3 MoD Green Book Rules for Media Reporting 211
Appendix 4 US Military Ground Rules for Media Reporting
of the Persian Gulf War 212
Notes 213
Bibliography 219
Index 229.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-228) and index.
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