War Reporters Under Threat - The United States and Media Freedom

Combines critical scholarship with investigative journalism to examine the US government threat to journalists, a threat ignored or dismissed to date.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Government-Media Collaboration in the Build Up to Iraq 2. The Suppression of Contradictory Reporting 3. Attacks on Media Installations 4. Attacks on Individual Journalists 5. Strains of Policy 6. Media Response 7. Legality 8. Invisible Conflict?

About the author

Chris Paterson teaches at the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He is the author of War Reporters Under Threat: The United States and Media Freedom (Pluto, 2014) and The International Television News Agencies (2011).

Summary

Combines critical scholarship with investigative journalism to examine the US government threat to journalists, a threat ignored or dismissed to date.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Paterson, Paterson Chris
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9780745334189
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3418-9
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Media Studies, North America, Middle East, Press & journalism, North America (USA and Canada), Armed Conflict