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The Military and the Media: Why the Press Cannot Be Trusted to Cover a War » Read Now
by William V. Kennedy. 167 pgs.

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This book is the first about military-media relations to argue for a fundamental restructuring of national journalism and the first to document the failure of American journalism in the national security field for the past thirty years. Press complaints of excessive control by the military during...
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This book is the first about military-media relations to argue for a fundamental restructuring of national journalism and the first to document the failure of American journalism in the national security field for the past thirty years. Press complaints of excessive control by the military during the Persian Gulf War of 1990-91 were the inevitable result of the failure of American journalism to train competent specialists in military reporting and to provide an organizational structure that would assure continuing, comprehensive coverage of national defense in peace and war. This, in turn, is the result of retaining the "city-room" concept as the basic organizational feature of the press, with continuing reliance on the generalist in an age that demands increasingly well-trained specialists. So long as the press fails to modernize its basic methods of training to assure well-trained defense specialists, the military will be required to closely control reporters, as in the Persian Gulf War, as a basic requirement of security for armed forces members and the national interests. Permitting the military to control how the military itself is reported is a grave danger to the democratic process. Yet, so long as the press refuses to accept responsibility for large-scale reform, the public will continue to support close military control as an essential element of safety for its sons and daughters in the armed forces, and out of concern for the success of U.S. military operations. This book will be of interest to students of the press, of the military, and of the media at large.
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War & Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power » Read Now
by Jeffery A. Smith. 324 pgs.

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In the two centuries from the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791 through the Gulf War in 1991, the American press lacked an adequate right to analyze and report on the nation's armed conflicts. When restrictions were challenged as violations of the Constitution, military regulations and...
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In the two centuries from the ratification of the First Amendment in 1791 through the Gulf War in 1991, the American press lacked an adequate right to analyze and report on the nation's armed conflicts. When restrictions were challenged as violations of the Constitution, military regulations and federal laws were justified as necessary under the "higher law" of survival Is there law more important than the Constitution which allows prerogative powers to be used in a time of war or national crisis? This groundbreaking and provocative study, examining law and history over these two hundred years, argues that press freedom cannot and should not be suspended during armed conflict.
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The Media in Postmodern War and Terrorism, in International Journal of Humanities and Peace » Read Now
by Tapio Varis. 5 pgs.

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...The media in postmodern war and terrorism. by...operators for cyberwar, as Iraq did not. In recent media history, the Vietnam War was the first...avoiding overe-emphasis on...
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Locating Accountability: The Media and Peacekeeping, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by Susan D. Moeller. 23 pgs.

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...apparent that the medias coverage--any media coverage, in fact--distinguished the operation...their role as eyewitnesses, the media in Somalia, Bosnia and Rwanda...
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The Media and the Persian Gulf War » Read Now
by Robert E. Denton Jr. 302 pgs.

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This thorough work focuses on the processes and effects of the media, both leading up to and during the "mother of all battles" in 1990 and 1991. Broad in scope and varied in methodologies, the chapters span the media of television, radio, print, and film. Chapters discuss such specific topics as...
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This thorough work focuses on the processes and effects of the media, both leading up to and during the "mother of all battles" in 1990 and 1991. Broad in scope and varied in methodologies, the chapters span the media of television, radio, print, and film. Chapters discuss such specific topics as the relationship between the press and the censoring military, CNN's and C-SPAN's coverage, how talk radio and television covered the war, the media's depiction of women in the military, the Gulf War as a referent in advertising, and how popular culture legitimized the war.
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The Media and the Gulf War » Read Now
by Hedrick Smith. 444 pgs.

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America's attention focused on the Gulf War as briefings and bombings filled the airwaves and pictures and stories filled the print media. But did the American people receive the information that a free press should guarantee?
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The President, the Press, and the War-Making Power: An Analysis of Media Coverage Prior to the Persian Gulf War, in Presidential Studies Quarterly » Read Now
by David A. Lewis, Roger P. Rose. 13 pgs.

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...the most well-established findings in media research is that reporters turn to...the range of viewpoints expressed in media coverage. What is of great interest...which war...
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Media and War: Reflections on Vietnam: Nick Turner Recalls His Experience as a War Correspondent during the Vietnam War, in New Zealand International Review » Read Now
by Nick Turner. 3 pgs.

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...is not how it came across. The US media in Saigon were frankly bamboozled by...Tet offensive were landmark events in media coverage of Vietnam, although there...Indonesia...
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Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era » Read Now
by Jonathan Mermin. 159 pgs.

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...The First Amendment ideal of an independent press allows American journalists to present critical perspectives on government policies and actions; but are the media...
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Media at War: Radio's Challenge to the Newspapers, 1924-1939 » Read Now
by Gwenyth L. Jackaway. 172 pgs.

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Fought when radio was first introduced, the Press-Radio war was an attempt on the part of print journalists to block the emergence of radio news. For nearly a decade, the newspapers of America fought to keep broadcast journalism off the air, exerting various forms of economic, regulatory, and legal...
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Fought when radio was first introduced, the Press-Radio war was an attempt on the part of print journalists to block the emergence of radio news. For nearly a decade, the newspapers of America fought to keep broadcast journalism off the air, exerting various forms of economic, regulatory, and legal pressure against new competitors. This study traces the stages and forms of institutional self-defense utilized by the press. Far more than mere battles to protect profits, media wars are fights to preserve the institutional power that derives from controlling the channels of communication.
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From D-day through Victory in Europe: The Eye-Witness Story as Told by War Correspondents on the Air » Read Now
by Paul M. Hollister, Robert Strunsky. 314 pgs.

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...interest in these invitingly bare beaches and river estuaries. . . . 12:26 TROUT: . . . In approximately three minutes . . . at 12:30 Eastern Wartime, we who are on duty...
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The Confederate Press Association: Cooperative News Reporting of the War, in Civil War History » Read Now
by Ford Risley. 18 pgs.

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...in the South during the war. (7.) J. Cutler Andrews, "The Southern Telegraph Company, 1861-1865: A Chapter in the History of Wartime Communication," Journal of Southern...
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Bohemian Brigade: Civil War Newsmen in Action » Read Now
by Louis M. Starr. 368 pgs.

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...City, the son of Richardsons wartime prison-mate, Junius Browne...Reid, of New York, daughter-in-law of Whitelaw Reid; and Mrs...the sense that gave rise to a wartime...
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Bombs and Bombast in the NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999: The Attack on Radio Television Serbia and the Laws of War, in Communications and the Law » Read Now
by Lyombe Eko. 45 pgs.

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...determine (1) the role of the mass media in the various Balkan conflicts that...of war. I. THE ROLE OF THE MASS MEDIA IN THE FRAGMENTATION AND COLLAPSE OF...The favorite...
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Revulsion and Pathos: Covering the War in Afghanistan, in Afterimage » Read Now
by Mark Dunden. 2 pgs.

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...domination than war. (1) Media coverage of the bombing of Afghanistan, both in the United States and...gaunt, bin Ladens face in the media provides the focus...
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Truth on the Battlefield, in Harvard International Review » Read Now
by Dan Rather. 6 pgs.

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...Press relations--or "media" relations, as the...did not yet exist in the way we recognize...speed; the press--the "media"--is almost daily...leadership is itself in a...