The First Casualty
Subtitle: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq
By: Phillip Knightley.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 594
Subjects: War -- Press coverage.; War correspondents.
Description: "Since Vietnam, Phillip Knightley reveals, governments have become much more adept at managing the media, as highlighted in chapters on the Falklands War, the Gulf War, and the conflict between NATO and Serbia over Kosovo. And in a new chapter on the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Knightley details even greater degrees of government manipulation and media complicity - the "embedding" of reporters in military units and the uncritical, openly patriotic coverage of these conflicts. "The age of the war correspondent as hero," he concludes, "appears to be over." Fully updated, The First Casualty remains required reading for anyone concerned about freedom of the press, journalistic responsibility, and the nature of modern warfare."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-552) and index.