Conflicted : Making News from Global War / Isaac Blacksin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blacksin, Isaac, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Press coverage.

War.

War correspondents.

Reporters and reporting.

Journalism--Objectivity.

Journalism.

Newspapers--Language.

Newspapers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"How is popular knowledge of war shaped by the stories we consume, what are the boundaries of this knowledge, and how are these boundaries policed or contested by journalists producing knowledge from war zones? Based on years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as well as Afghanistan and Ukraine, Conflicted challenges normative conceptions of war by revealing how representational authority comes to be. Turning the lens on journalists from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and other prominent publications, Isaac Blacksin shows why news coverage of contemporary conflict, widely presumed to function as a critique of excessive violence, instead serves to sanction official rationales for war. Blacksin argues that journalism's humanitarian frame - now hegemonic in conflict coverage - serves to depoliticize and re-moralize war, transforming it from an effect of policy on populations to an effect of violence on the innocent. Exploring the tension between experience and expression in conditions of violence, and tracking how journalists respond to dominant expectations of reality, Conflicted tells the story of war, reporters, and the consequences of their convergence. As new wars, and new reportage, continue to shape our understanding of armed conflict, this book makes visible both the power and the particularity of war reportage"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: War's lobby : the displacements of journalism in wartime

Interlude : cheapening experience

Folklore of the future : the certainty of journalistic expression

Visible system and invisible rules : commodifying common sense

Interlude : available stories

Extermination as protection : depoliticizing war, remoralizing violence

Power speaking to truth : struggles with the problem of war

Interlude : what to make of it

Writing conflicts : the tension between experience and text

Agitation at the margins : return of the journalistically repressed

Interlude : leaving Mosul

Conclusion: War's exit : entangled possibility in the age of endless conflict

Epilogue : from Mosul to Mariupol.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781503639454

1503639452

OCLC:

1434178944