Devoting each of the book's twelve chapters to a particular conflict, from the world wars to Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf War, and the Balkans, Miles Hudson and John Stanier here trace the evolution of the often contentious and always ...
In this study of the impact of the media on war, all the major wars and many of the minor conflicts fought by Britain - as well as many by...
'War and the media' brings together internationally known contributors. It is an essential guide to understanding the institutions and technologies involved in the production and consumption of television news.
The Gulf War of 1991 was the highest profile media war in history. Never before had so many journalists attempted to cover a war from both sides of the conflict....
Media create a false sense ofintimacy by turning public and private inside out, integrating the real with the ... The fact that, even before Drudge's report, the very first news outlets to break the story of Harry's presence in ...
... effective peacekeeping inside the New World Order. 'My sense was, the Army wanted some fairy dust', ICT creative director James H. Korris revealed in the New York Times. 'They wanted to add some Hollywood creativity to their world .
How do journalists view their role in covering distant wars? This book critically examines the changing contours of media coverage of war and considers the complexity of the relationship between mass media and governments in wartime.
This book assesses the effects of 9/11 and its aftermath on the political, cultural and professional contexts of news.
This book traces the role of the media in the Gulf War and examines the attempts by both the coalition and Iraq to influence public opinion through propaganda and persuasion.
Mass communication is used by governments to support their war efforts while media images are created or manipulated to inform, persuade or guide the consumers of those images. But this book looks beyond the obvious.
The media and the military have fundamentally opposed information objectives during wartime: the military must protect operational security and the lives of armed forces while the media seeks to satisfy...
Propaganda has been a major tool of war from the earliest times and has never been more vital, and had no greater effect, than in the 20th century - a...