Newspapers, the Reporter and the Wider Context

This chapter examines the backgrounds to the Gulf War and Kosovo Conflict in order to highlight their significance to the changing nature of media technology and its influence on policy and public opinion. Each conflict presented separate challenges for the propagandist in legitimizing intervention...

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Published inPropaganda, the Press and Conflict pp. 23 - 51
Main Author Willcox, David R.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Routledge 2005
Taylor & Francis Group
Edition1
Subjects
Media studies
Propaganda
Modern Visual Media
De La Billiere
Peace Journalism
Sir Peter De La Billiere
NATO Air
NATO Involvement
NATO Review
Contemporary Society
NATO Attack
NATO Air Strike
Martin Bell
Roy Greenslade
NATO's Website
Cyber Weapon
Tv Anchorman
News Dissemination
Kosovo Conflict
War Reporter
Patrick Bishop
NATO's Failure
NATO Policy
NATO Aircraft
Colonel Blimp
NATO Threat
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Summary:This chapter examines the backgrounds to the Gulf War and Kosovo Conflict in order to highlight their significance to the changing nature of media technology and its influence on policy and public opinion. Each conflict presented separate challenges for the propagandist in legitimizing intervention to the public. A definition of propaganda and an understanding of its evolution as a theory are defunct without reference to specific events. In order to assess the continuity of propaganda as a mechanism for the mass persuasion of public opinion during war it is necessary to study both the events during which it is utilized and the means by which the messages are transmitted. The press, media in general and governments justified their right to intervene through utilizing history.
ISBN:9780415407915
0415360439
0415407915
9780415360432
DOI:10.4324/9780203008171-3