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Journalists Under Fire: Information War and Journalistic Practices is the first book to combine a conceptually audacious analysis of the changing nature of war with an empirically rich critical analysis of journalists who cover conflict. In this book, authors Howard Tumber and Frank Webster explore questions about Information War and journalistic practices. In the era of multi-national journalism, of the Internet and satellite videophone, the book highlights central features of media reporting in contemporary conflict. Drawing on more than fifty lengthy interviews with frontline correspondents, the authors shed light on the motivations, fears, and practices of those who work under conditions of journalism under fire. is the first book to combine a conceptually audacious analysis of the changing nature of war with an empirically rich critical analysis of journalists who cover conflict. In this book, authors Howard Tumber and Frank Webster explore questions about Information War and journalistic practices. In the era of multi-national journalism, of the Internet and satellite videophone, the book highlights central features of media reporting in contemporary conflict. Drawing on more than fifty lengthy interviews with frontline correspondents, the authors shed light on the motivations, fears, and practices of those who work under conditions of journalism under fire.
Information War and Journalistic Practices in the 21st Century
Information War and Journalistic Practices in the 21st Century
The demolition of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dismantling of the USSR two years later released a wave of optimism around the world. Soviet communism had turned from a dream of liberation into a nightmare of oppression and inefficiency. Its almost bloodless collapse gave heart to democrats everywhere. The Soviet Union's demise ended the Cold War, breaking the ‘balance of terror’ that had long prevailed between the United States and the USSR and the ‘mutually assured destruction’ by nuclear missiles that was its corollary. It also brought to a finish the organisation of the globe in terms of opposing capitalist and communist blocs and their respective ...
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