Research Catalog

Title

The media and the war on terrorism / Stephen Hess, Marvin Kalb, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Brookings Institution.
• Hess, Stephen.
• Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy.
• Kalb, Marvin L.

Description

xv, 307 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"These candid conversations capture the difficulties of reporting during crisis and war, particularly the tension between government and the press. The participants include distinguished journalists - American and foreign, print and broadcast - and prominent public officials, past and present. They illuminate the struggle to balance freedom of the press and the right to know with the need to protect sensitive information in the national interest. As the Information Age collides with the War on Terrorism, that challenge becomes even more critical and daunting."--Jacket.

Subject

• Terrorism > Press coverage
• Terrorism and mass media
• War > Press coverage

Note

• "Cosponsored by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part One, The media and the government: World War II to the end of the twentieth century. Lessons of past wars / Peter Arnett [and others]. Presidential press secretaries / Joe Lockhart [and others]. National security decisionmakers / Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, James R. Schlesinger, and R. James Woolsey. The CNN effect / Lawrence S. Eagleburger [and others] -- Part Two, War in Afghanistan : the early stages. The pentagon and the press / Victoria Clarke [and others]. Three months later / Victoria Clarke [and others] -- Part Three, The journalists dilemma: three stories. The Hart-Rudman Commission report / Thomas Kunkel [and others]. The anthrax attacks and bioterrorism / Ceci Connolly [and others]. Dissent / Alex Arriaga [and others] -- Part Four, Reporting from the field: three sites. Afghanistan / Michael Gordon [and others]. The Middle East / Glenn Frankel [and others]. Foreign correspondents in Washington / Hafez-Al-Mirazi [and others] -- Part Five, From different perspectives. Public diplomacy or propaganda? / Karen DeYoung [and others]. Congress / Candy Crowley [and others]. Public opinion / Jill Abramson [and others]. Overview / Lloyd N. Cutler [and others] -- Part Six, 9/11 and beyond. Running toward danger / E.J. Dionne, Jr [and others].

ISBN

0815735812 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003007527

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library