Reporting the wars / by Joseph J. Mathews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mathews, Joseph James, 1908-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War correspondents.

Reporters and reporting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 322 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1957]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Much of the lure of the war dispatch permeates this book, the first full-length history of modern war news. Professor Mathews traces the development of war news coverage for the last 200 years, from the time of the Napoleonic Wars through World War II.

Contents:

CONTENTS; 1 WAR NEWS; 2 WAR NEWS WITHOUT WAR CORRESPONDENTS; 3 NAPOLEON'S MILITARY BULLETINS; 4 THE GENESIS OF NEWSPAPER WAR CORRESPONDENCE; 5 THE MID-CENTURY REVOLUTION; 6 AMERICAN BOHEMIANS; 7 THE WARS OF ITALIAN AND GERMAN UNIFICATION; 8 HERALDS OF THE IMPERIALISTIC WARS; 9 COSMOPOLITANISM AND SENSATIONALISM; 10 WORLD WAR I; 11 WORLD WAR II; 12 CENSORSHIP AND CONTROL; 13 OFFICIAL WAR NEWS; 14 THE PROFESSION OF WAR CORRESPONDENCE; 15 THE LITERATURE OF WAR CORRESPONDENCE; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 295-312) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5823-4

OCLC:

476161448