MediaPeace: The War Correspondent

The War Correspondent
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He addresses the tendency for Western journalists to take sides in civil
conflicts; the media politics of international intervention in humanitarian
crises; the seductive power of military 'public relations'; and of course the
commercial and technological pressures of an intensely concentrated, competitive
news media environment. The book features interviews with prominent war and
foreign correspondents. The author argues that the future for war reporting and
foreign correspondence will be determined not so much by professional
imperatives but by military pressures and market forces outside the control of
the journalist. The self-serving myth that war stories are no longer what
'consumers' want disguises the reality that foreign news is becoming too
expensive to produce.
The War Correspondent - London : Pluto Press.
viii, 232 p.; 22 cm.
ISBN: 0745314449
Author(s):
1. MacLaughlin, Greg
Subject(s):
1. WAR--PRESS COVERAGE
2. WAR CORRESPONDENTS
3. MASS MEDIA AND WAR
ID number: 80019719
Year: 2002