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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | Fully updated second edition. |
| Series: | Knowledge Unlatched - Round 2.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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?