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11 of the Best Books and Articles on: Television Coverage of War

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War & Press Freedom: The Problem of Prerogative Power (Discussion of television coverage of war begins on p. 198) » 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 Military and the Media: Why the Press Cannot Be Trusted to Cover a War (Chap. 3 "Television: The Here, Now, and Obituary Medium") » 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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If It Bleeds, It Leads: An Anatomy of Television News ("6:00:25 PM: War Stories" begins on p. 78) » Read Now
by Matthew R. Kerbel. 149 pgs.

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Matthew R. Kerbel is associate professor of political science at Villanova University.
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The Television War: Unparalleled Access and Breakthroughs in Technology Produced Riveting Live Coverage of the War in Iraq. But How Complete a Picture Did TV Deliver?, in American Journalism Review » Read Now
by Jacqueline E. Sharkey. 10 pgs.

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War Coverage That Angered Everyone, in World and I » Read Now
by Reid Emil. 6 pgs.

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Examining Media Coverage: A Classroom Study of Iraq War News, in Social Education » Read Now
by Christopher R. Leahey. 5 pgs.

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Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era (Chap. Six "Television News and the Foreign-Policy Agenda") » Read Now
by Jonathan Mermin. 162 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 independent of government in practice? Here Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it comes to military intervention, journalists over...
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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 independent of government in practice? Here Jonathan Mermin demonstrates that when it comes to military intervention, journalists over the past two decades have let the government itself set the terms and boundaries of foreign policy debate in the news. Analyzing newspaper and television reporting of U.S. intervention in Grenada and Panama, the bombing of Libya, the Gulf War, and U.S. actions in Somalia and Haiti, he shows that if there is no debate over U.S. policy in Washington, there is no debate in the news. Journalists often criticize the execution of U.S. policy, but fail to offer critical analysis of the policy itself if actors inside the government have not challenged it. Mermin ultimately offers concrete evidence of outside-Washington perspectives that could have been reported in specific cases, and explains how the press could increase its independence of Washington in reporting foreign policy news.
The author constructs a new framework for thinking about press
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CNN, the Gulf War, and Journalistic Practice, in Journal of Communication » Read Now
by Barbie Zelizer. 16 pgs.

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...Oswald, on television prompted...disadvantages--of live coverage (Zelizer...of Gulf War coverage...1991). Television offered news coverage that clarified the war effort...
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The Persian Gulf TV War » Read Now
by Douglas Kellner. 460 pgs.

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...conception of the war. Because television coverage played a...the Gulf war within the...broader context of U.S. society...analyzed the television and print media coverage...
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The Media and the Persian Gulf War (Includes discussion of television coverage of war in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Robert E. Denton. 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 (Includes discussion of television coverage of war in multiple chapters) » 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?