The Military and the Media: A Need for Control.

Abstract

This study says that controls of the media should exist in time of conflict, crisis or war. But that is not a carte blanch for umitagated censorship. Those controls should be aimed at purely military/operational security matters, not be an excuse for the King to run around naked. To add a safeguard that assures excesses are not allowed on either side, a watchdog panel of media experts should be formed to act as an Ombudsman for both sides--to protect and to serve. AS a minimum, these two aspects will provide a quantum improvement over the self-defeating system that existed in the last conflict this country faced.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 09, 1983
Accession Number
ADA130966

Entities

People

  • Douglas H. Rogers
  • James M. Winters
  • John P. Yeagley
  • Richard Erickson

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Civil Rights
  • Civil War
  • Congress
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • International Law
  • Law
  • Military Operations
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Newspapers
  • Personnel Management
  • Second World War
  • Students
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Industrial Economics
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing