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Shooting the messenger : the political impact of war reporting / Paul L. Moorcraft and Philip M. Taylor.
Van Pelt Library PN4784.W37 M66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moorcraft, Paul L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Press coverage--History.
- War.
- Press and politics--History.
- Press and politics.
- History.
- War--Press coverage.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 318 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 The Origins of War Reporting 1
- Shooting the Messenger 1
- The Rise of the Specials 6
- Russell and the Crimean War 7
- The American Civil War 12
- The Imperial Wars 15
- Entente between Pen and Sword 28
- 2 The World Wars 31
- The Great War 31
- The Wars Between the Wars 46
- The Russian Revolution and Its Repercussions 49
- Abyssinia 50
- The Spanish Civil War 52
- The Gathering Storm 55
- World War II 57
- 3 The Cold War (of Words) 69
- The Korean War 70
- French Indochina 73
- Suez: No End of a Lesson 74
- Algeria: A Savage War 75
- Britain's Colonial Wars 77
- America's War on the Doorstep 80
- Vietnam 82
- The Empire Strikes Back 88
- Grenada, Panama, and Haiti 94
- End of History? 98
- 4 African "Sideshows"? 103
- Rhodesia: Arguing with Arithmetic and History 106
- South Africa: Reporting Apartheid 112
- Somalia 122
- 5 Europe's Intra-State Conflicts 127
- Balkan Wars 128
- Kosovo 135
- Northern Ireland 140
- Hidden War: Chechnya 144
- 6 The Middle East and Afghanistan 149
- Israel versus the Palestinians 150
- Iran 151
- Afghanistan 153
- The Gulf War 156
- The Intifadas 168
- Media Influence 171
- 7 The Long War 175
- Afghanistan 176
- "With Us or Against Us" 178
- The Iraq War 181
- Embeds and Fembeds 183
- Atrocity Stories 190
- Shaping the Information Space 192
- The Occupation Fiasco 196
- The Other Occupation 202
- Troubles Elsewhere: Darfur 205
- Lebanon 206
- Hearts and Minds in the Long Haul 208
- 8 The Mechanics of Reporting War and Peace 213
- Reporting Peace 213
- The Decline of Foreign News Reporting 216
- The Media in Post-Conflict Interventions 220
- The Media Operators: Hidden Persuaders? 222
- What Makes War Correspondents Tick? 232
- 9 No More Heroes? 239
- Witnesses to History 239
- The CNN Effect? 241
- Hacks versus the Bean Counters 246.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781574889475
- 1574889478
- OCLC:
- 191758478
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