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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. Such issues 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. Special attention is devoted to considering recent changes in journalistic forms and practices, and the ways in which they are shaping the visual culture of war. Taken together, the book's chapters raise important questions about the very future of journalism during wartime, questions which demand public dialogue and debate. This book will be essential reading for students taking courses in news and news journalism, as well as for researchers, teachers and practitioners in the field. Stuart Allan, Patricia Aufderheide, Michael Bromley, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Susan L. Carruthers, Nick Couldry, John Downey, Adel Iskandar, Mohammed el-Nawawy, Philip Hammond, Richard Keeble, Douglas Kel
Show moreReporting 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. Such issues 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. Special attention is devoted to considering recent changes in journalistic forms and practices, and the ways in which they are shaping the visual culture of war. Taken together, the book's chapters raise important questions about the very future of journalism during wartime, questions which demand public dialogue and debate. This book will be essential reading for students taking courses in news and news journalism, as well as for researchers, teachers and practitioners in the field. Stuart Allan, Patricia Aufderheide, Michael Bromley, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Susan L. Carruthers, Nick Couldry, John Downey, Adel Iskandar, Mohammed el-Nawawy, Philip Hammond, Richard Keeble, Douglas Kel
Show moreIntroduction; 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
Stuart Allan is a lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at
the University of the West of England. His books include News
Culture (Open U 1999) and Media, Risk and Science. (Open U.P. 2002)
He edits the series Issues in Cultural and Media Studies for Open
U. P., now McGraw-Hill. He has co-edited a number of collections
including News, Gender and Power (Routledge 1998), Environmental
Risks and the Media (Routledge 2000) and Journalism after September
11 (with Barbie Zelizer) Routledge 2002.
Barbie Zelizer is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication
at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia. She is
the author of several books on journalism, popular culture and
coll-ective memory, and co-edited Journalism after September 11.
She is a founder and co-editor of the Sage journal Journalism:
Theory, Practice and Criticism.
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