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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McLaughlin, Greg (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, [2016]
Edición:Fully updated second edition.
Colección:Knowledge Unlatched - Round 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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?