Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime
Abingdon: Routledge (2004), 374 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 0-415-33998-7 (pbk); 9780203497562 (online)
Signature commbox: 10-Conflicts-E 2004
"Reporting War explores the social responsibilities of the journalist during times of military conflict. News media treatments of international crises, especially the one underway in Iraq, are increasingly becoming the subject of public controversy, and discussion is urgently needed. Each of this book's contributors challenges familiar assumptions about war reporting from a distinctive perspective. An array of pressing issues associated with conflicts over recent years are identified and critiqued, always with an eye to what they can tell us about improving journalism today. Special attention is devoted to recent changes in journalistic forms and practices, and the ways in which they are shaping the visual culture of war, and issues discussed, amongst many, include: "the influence of censorship and propaganda, 'us' and 'them' news narratives, access to sources, '24/7 rolling news' and the 'CNN effect', military jargon (such as 'friendly fire' and 'collateral damage'), 'embedded' and 'unilateral' reporters, tensions between objectivity and patriotism." (Publisher description)
Rules of Engagement: Journalism and War / Stuart Allan and Barbie Zelizer, 3
PART I. WAR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
1 Understanding: the Second Casualty / Oliver Boyd-Barrett, 25
2 Information Warfare in An Age of Hyper-Militarism / Richard Keeble, 43
3 A Moral Imagination: the Media's Response to the War On Terrorism / Susan D. Moeller, 59
4 The PR of Terror: How New-Style Wars Give Voice to Terrorists / Tamar Liebes and Zohar Kampf, 77
5 Researching US Media-State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars / Piers Robinson, 96
PART II. BEARING WITNESS
6 When War is Reduced to a Photograph / Barbie Zelizer, 115
7 The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited / Douglas Kellner, 136
8 Tribalism and Tribulation: Media Constructions of "African Savagery" and "Western Humanitarianism" in the 1990s / Susan L. Carruthers, 155
9 Humanizing War: The Balkans and Beyond / Philip Hammond, 174
10 Prisoners of News Values? Journalists, Professionalism, and Identification in Times of War / Howard Tumber, 190
11 Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The Non-Reporting of Small Wars and Insurgencies / Prasun Sonwalkar, 206
12 The Battlefield is the Media: War Reporting and the Formation of National Identity in Australia-From Belmont to Baghdad / Michael Bromley, 224
PART III. REPORTING THE IRAQ WAR
13 Militarized Journalism: Framing Dissent in the Gulf Wars / Stephen D. Reese, 247
14 War Or Peace: Legitimation, Dissent, and Rhetorical Closure in Press Coverage of the Iraq War Build-Up / Nick Couldry and John Downey, 266
15 How British Television News Represented the Case for the War in Iraq / Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes, 283
16 European News Agencies and their Sources in the Iraq War Coverage / Terhi Rantanen, 301
17 Al-Jazeera and War Coverage in Iraq: the Media's Quest For Contextual Objectivity / Adel Iskandar and Mohammed El-Nawawy, 315
18 Big Media and Little Media: the Journalistic Informal Sector During the Invasion of Iraq / Patricia Aufderheide, 333
19 The Culture of Distance: Online Reporting of the Iraq War / Stuart Allan, 347
PART I. WAR IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
1 Understanding: the Second Casualty / Oliver Boyd-Barrett, 25
2 Information Warfare in An Age of Hyper-Militarism / Richard Keeble, 43
3 A Moral Imagination: the Media's Response to the War On Terrorism / Susan D. Moeller, 59
4 The PR of Terror: How New-Style Wars Give Voice to Terrorists / Tamar Liebes and Zohar Kampf, 77
5 Researching US Media-State Relations and Twenty-First Century Wars / Piers Robinson, 96
PART II. BEARING WITNESS
6 When War is Reduced to a Photograph / Barbie Zelizer, 115
7 The Persian Gulf TV War Revisited / Douglas Kellner, 136
8 Tribalism and Tribulation: Media Constructions of "African Savagery" and "Western Humanitarianism" in the 1990s / Susan L. Carruthers, 155
9 Humanizing War: The Balkans and Beyond / Philip Hammond, 174
10 Prisoners of News Values? Journalists, Professionalism, and Identification in Times of War / Howard Tumber, 190
11 Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The Non-Reporting of Small Wars and Insurgencies / Prasun Sonwalkar, 206
12 The Battlefield is the Media: War Reporting and the Formation of National Identity in Australia-From Belmont to Baghdad / Michael Bromley, 224
PART III. REPORTING THE IRAQ WAR
13 Militarized Journalism: Framing Dissent in the Gulf Wars / Stephen D. Reese, 247
14 War Or Peace: Legitimation, Dissent, and Rhetorical Closure in Press Coverage of the Iraq War Build-Up / Nick Couldry and John Downey, 266
15 How British Television News Represented the Case for the War in Iraq / Justin Lewis and Rod Brookes, 283
16 European News Agencies and their Sources in the Iraq War Coverage / Terhi Rantanen, 301
17 Al-Jazeera and War Coverage in Iraq: the Media's Quest For Contextual Objectivity / Adel Iskandar and Mohammed El-Nawawy, 315
18 Big Media and Little Media: the Journalistic Informal Sector During the Invasion of Iraq / Patricia Aufderheide, 333
19 The Culture of Distance: Online Reporting of the Iraq War / Stuart Allan, 347
