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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819098603321

Autore

Markham Tim <1974->

Titolo

The politics of war reporting : authority, authenticity and morality / / Tim Markham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed to the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

ISBN

1-84779-799-7

1-78170-264-0

1-84779-424-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Classificazione

AP 13625

AP 26880

Disciplina

070.4/333

Soggetti

War - Press coverage

War - Press coverage - History

War correspondents - Professional ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction: why use political phenomenology to analyse war reporting?; 2. Theoretical preliminaries; 3. Methodological issues; 4. Practical mastery of authority, authenticity and disposition; 5. Journalistic ethics and moral authority: being right, knowing better; 6. How do audiences live journalism?; 7. New developments in the field: brave new world or plus ça change?; 8. Conclusion: implications for war reporting, journalism studies and political phenomenology; Appendix: interviewee profiles; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.