The First Casualty: the War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-maker from the Crimea to Kosovo
Editorial Reviews
-New Yorker
"Disturbing, even dismaying, yet also in its painful way, enormously entertaining."
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"Few books have deserved an updated edition more than Phillip Knightley's history of war reporting since the 1850s... Invaluable for anyone with an interest in the media, it is equally recommended as a modern history of government lies."-- Times Literary Supplement
"A durable and unblinking chronicle of the role of correspondents in covering, analyzing, and sometimes promoting war... Knightley has added post-Vietnam chapters dealing with Britain's Falkland Islands conflict, the American invasions of Grenada and Panama, the Persian Gulf War, and NATO's Kosovo bombing campaign. There is no chapter on the 2001-2002 fighting in Afghanistan, but its character is unerringly foreshadowed in the ever more stringent policies enforced by Britain and the United States to exclude, control, and coerce correspondents."--James Boylan, Columbia Journalism Review
"This is fascinating history, with all the personalities and complexity of real life... The main modern story, aside from a few cases of decent reporting in Vietnam, is increasing government efforts, most successful, to manage war coverage. Keep that in mind as the Iraq story unfolds."--Alan W. Bock, Orange County Register
The First Casualty: the War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-maker from the Crimea to Kosovo
The First Casualty: the War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-maker from the Crimea to Kosovo,Knightley Phillip,John Pilger,Prion Books Ltd (formerly Multimedia Books Ltd),1853753769,History of specific subjects,Political campaigning & advertising,Press & journalism,Radio & television industry,Warfare & Defence
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