Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk

Killing the Messenger: Journalists at Risk

The book 'Killing the Messenger' reveals the dangerous new face of war and journalism.

Covering armed conflicts has always been dangerous business, but in the past, press heroes faced only the danger of random bullets or bombs. Today's war correspondent is actually in the cross hairs, a target of combatants on all sides of conflicts. In this book, correspondents describe the new dangers they face, and attempt to explain why they are targeted. Is it simply that modern combatants are more brutal than in the past, or has journalism changed, making correspondents players, rather than observers, in modern warfare ? Ways to reduce the risks for reporters are discussed, but editors and correspondents suggest that, short of withdrawing into isolated and protected enclaves, they may be facing an indefinite escalation of violence against journalists.
 
Killing the Messenger : Journalists at Risk in Modern Warfare - Westport,
CT : Praeger.
xv, 161 p.; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0275987868
Author(s):
1. Foerstel, Herbert N.
Subject(s):
1. WAR--PRESS COVERAGE
2. WAR CORRESPONDENTS
3. MASS MEDIA AND WAR
ID number: 80021346
Year: 2006