The war correspondent / / Greg McLaughlin.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : Pluto Press,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Fully updated second edition. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 267 pages) |
| Notes: | Originally published 2002. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?