The politics of war reporting : Authority, authenticity and morality.

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Author / Creator:Markham, Tim, 1974-
Imprint:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (225 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166943
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ISBN:9781847794246
1847794246
9780719085284
0719085284
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-209) and index.
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Summary:This book unpacks the aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usually go unacknowledged. This book asks why it is that the authoritative reporter increasingly needs to appear authentic, and that success depends not only on getting things right but being the right sort of journalist. This depends on the uncalculating mastery of practices both before and during a journalist's career. Includes interview with war correspondents and others with an active stake in the field and combines them with the critical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to construct a political phenomenology of war reporting, the power relations and unspoken rules underpinning the representation of conflict and suffering by the media.
Other form:Print version: Markham, Tim. Politics of war reporting : Authority, authenticity and morality. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2012 9780719085284