The War Correspondent (Record no. 7232)
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| fixed length control field | 01927nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780745314440 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 070.4333 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | McLaughlin, Greg |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The War Correspondent |
| Statement of responsibility | Greg McLaughlin |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | London |
| Name of publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year of publication | 2002 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | viii,232 Pages |
| Other physical details | 21x13 cm |
| -- | PB |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Includes Notes, Index. Bibliography and Appendices |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The War Correspondent looks at the role of the war reporter today in context with contemporary issues: the perks and the risks of the job; the tendency for western journalists to take sides in civil conflicts like Bosnia and Kosovo; the media politics of international intervention in humanitarian crises; the seductive power of military 'public relations'; and of course the commercial and technological pressures of an intensely concentrated, competitive news media environment. The book features interviews with prominent war and foreign correspondents such as John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Maggie O'Kane and Christiane Amanpour. A special case study in military-media relations during NATO's bombing of Serbia/Kosovo in 1999 suggests that in spite of widespread passivity among the correspondents who attended the daily briefings in Brussels, some sections of the news media were at least prepared to ask some hard questions of NATO strategy and policy. Greg McLaughlin argues that the future for war reporting and foreign correspondence will be determined not so much by professional imperatives but by military pressures and market forces outside the control of the journalist. The self-serving myth that war stories are no longer what 'consumers' want disguises the reality that foreign news is becoming too expensive to produce. Unless 'our boys' are directly involved in combat, wars and rumours of wars will continue to slip down the media agenda as 'the rest of the day's news'. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | War--Press Coverage |
| -- | War Correspondents |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2016-12-29 | MSL | 1450.00 | 070.4333 M478W 2002 | 14136 | Books |