Reporting war : journalism in wartime
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Reporting war : journalism in wartime
Routledge, 2004
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Reporting War explores the social responsibilities of the journalist during times of military conflict. News media treatments of international crises, especially the one underway in Iraq, are increasingly becoming the subject of public controversy, and discussion is urgently needed.
Each of this book's contributors challenges familiar assumptions about war reporting from a distinctive perspective. An array of pressing issues associated with conflicts over recent years are identified and critiqued, always with an eye to what they can tell us about improving journalism today.
Special attention is devoted to recent changes in journalistic forms and practices, and the ways in which they are shaping the visual culture of war, and issues discussed, amongst many, include:
the influence of censorship and propaganda
'us' and 'them' news narratives
access to sources
'24/7 rolling news' and the 'CNN effect'
military jargon (such as 'friendly fire' and 'collateral damage')
'embedded' and 'unilateral' reporters
tensions between objectivity and patriotism.
The book raises important questions about the very future of journalism during wartime, questions which demand public dialogue and debate, and is essential reading for students taking courses in news and news journalism, as well as for researchers, teachers and practitioners in the field.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Rules of Engagement
- 1: War in the Twenty-First Century
- 2: Understanding
- 2: Information Warfare in an Age of Hyper-Militarism
- 3: A Moral Imagination
- 4: The PR of Terror
- 5: Researching US Media-State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars 1
- II: Bearing Witness
- 6: When War is Reduced to a Photograph
- 7: The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited
- 8: Tribalism and Tribulation
- 9: Humanizing War
- 10: Prisoners of News Values?
- 11: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
- 12: The Battlefield is the Media
- III: Reporting the Iraq War
- 13: Militarized Journalism
- 14: War or Peace?
- 15: How British Television News Represented the Case for the War in Iraq 1
- 16: European News Agencies and their Sources in the Iraq War Coverage
- 17: Al-Jazeera and War Coverage in Iraq
- 18: Big Media and Little Media
- 19: The Culture of Distance
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