War stories : the culture of foreign correspondents / / Mark Pedelty

• Autore: Mark Pedelty
• Pubblicazione: Oxfordshire, England ; ; New York, : Routledge, c1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.4/332
• Soggetto topico: War correspondents; Journalism - Objectivity
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; A List of Acronyms; PART ONE: WAR AND IDENTITY; 1 War Games; Running with the Pack; Guerrilla Safari; Las Vueltas; Myth and Practice; 2 Terror and Control; The Effects of the "Safe Conduct" System; Accepting the Silence; Terror as a Means of Press Control; Threats; The Question of Spies in the Press Corps; The Textual Effects of Terror; "Boredom Punctuated by Terror."; 3 On a White Horse; Rosa's Stories; PART TWO: STRUCTURE AND PRACTICE; 4 A Team, B Team; The Embassy and the Press; A Team; B Team; The Language of Team Competition ; Interdependence and Ideological ControlThe Political Control of speca; 5 Discipline and Publish; According to a "Western Diplomat."; Brenda; "Editors Suck."; The Ray Bonner Effect; 6 The Source War; Her, Rigoberta Menchu; "The Blood Has to be Purged."; 7 Practice; The Problem with Parachuting; Hard Work, Routine, Disease, and Insanity; The Second Floor; The Psuedo-Event as Press Ritual; The Press Conference as Drama; Manufacturing Consensus; 8 Recreational Rituals; The Opinion and Storytelling Ritual; War as "Fun."; Ritualized Sexual Practices; Drugs and Alcohol; Burn-out; 9 War Photography ; Images of Comandante CarmeloJoe in El Mozote; Dancing in Perquin; PART THREE: TEXT AND REPRESENTATION; 10 The Narrative Structure and Agenda of Objective Journalism; Objectivity; Balance and Fairness; Objective Texts; The Argument Underneath; News as Dramatic Narrative; Nationalism, Capitalism and the Central American News Agenda; The Shifting Agenda Syndrome; "Caught Up in a Total Whirlwind."; 11 Peace Comes to Television; El Salvador Peace Agreement; PART FOUR: DIFFERENCE AND DOMINATION; 13 The Salvadorans of speca; "Involved and in the Middle."; Journalism in El Salvador ; Objectivity is for GringosIdentity and Contradiction; The Colima Bridge Incident; Jonna's Garden; 14 Alternatives; Multiperspectival, Polyvocal, and Global News Alternatives; Gender Censorship and Feminist Alternatives; Maria; Existential Journalism; Epilogue; Appendix: The Journalists; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>What are the influences on war correspondents as they report on events in war-torn countries? Mark Pedelty explores the lives, work and culture of the international press corps, examining the institutions, practices, myths, and rituals that shape the work of journalists everywhere. He looks at the context in which journalists construct their reports. By looking at how new stories are actually produced, the author highlights the elusiveness of the goal of ""objective"" journalism and illustrates how the biases of war correspondents are constrained by the powers of government and how these bi
• Titolo autorizzato: War stories
• ISBN: 0-415-91124-9; 1-135-96440-8; 0-203-93381-8; 1-135-96441-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910345116703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II