The Military And the Press

by Sweeney, Michael S.; Gutman, Roy

• ISBN13: 9780810122994
• ISBN10: 0810122995
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-14
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

Because news is a weapon of war-affecting public opinion, troop morale, even strategy-for more than a century America's wartime officials have sought to control or influence the press, most recently by "embedding" reporters within military units in Iraq. This second front, where press freedom and military imperatives often do battle, is the territory explored in The Military and the Press, a timely look at how press-military relations have evolved during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in response to the demands of politics, economics, technology, and legal and social forces. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Michael S. Sweeney is an associate professor of print journalism and the head of the Department of Journalism and Communication at Utah State University in Logan Roy Gutman is the foreign editor of Newsday and the winner of both a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and a Polk Award for Best Foreign Reporting

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Roy Gutman
Preface	xvii
On the Shoulders of Giants: War Correspondents before World War I	1	(34)
Words as Weapons: World War I Propaganda and Censorship	35	(28)
A Free and Patriotic Press: Journalists and the Home Front in World War II	63	(30)
On the Team: Reporting, and Supporting, World War II	93	(28)
The Great Divorce: Korea and Vietnam	121	(30)
See No Evil: Controlling Access in the 1980s and 1990s	151	(30)
The Velvet Glove: Press-Military Accommodation in the Twenty-first Century	181	(30)
The Future: The Quest for More Light	211	(18)
Notes	229	(34)
Bibliography	263	(18)
Index	281