The military and the press : an uneasy truce / Michael S. Sweeney ; foreword by Roy Gutman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweeney, Michael S.

Series:

Visions of the American press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War correspondents--United States.

War correspondents.

War--Press coverage--United States.

War.

War--Press coverage.

United States.

Censorship--United States.

Censorship.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 297 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Because news is a weapon of war-affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy-for more than a century America's wartime officials have sought to control or influence the press, most recently by "embedding" reporters within military units in Iraq. This second front, where press freedom and military imperatives often do battle, is the territory explored in The Military and the Press, a timely look at how press-military relations have evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in response to the demands of politics, economics, technology, and legal and social forces.

Contents:

On the shoulders of giants : war correspondents before World War I

Words as weapons : World War I propaganda and censorship

A free and patriotic press : journalists and the home front in World War II

On the team : reporting, and supporting, World War II

The great divorce : Korea and Vietnam

See no evil : controlling access in the 1980s and 1990s

The velvet glove : press-military accommodation in the twenty-first century

The future : the quest for more light.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.

ISBN:

0810122995

OCLC:

63245425

Publisher Number:

9780810122994