Media Access and War Reporting: The Conflict between an Open Society and the Perceived Need for Government Control.
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to examine one of the problems of government and media relation: war reporting. War reporting has been a complex and vital part of journalism history. The thesis begins with a brief review of the methods employed by correspondents of previous wars to gain access to the news. The focus, however, is on a more recent development -- the exclusion of the media, during the first two days of the Grenada operation in 1983, which strained the relationship between government and the media. War reporting has been extensively researched. The advent of new information technology, however, requires a more thorough review of how government policy concerning media access is affected. It is the purpose of this thesis to provide a status report on how the military and the media are confronting the question of media access
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 18, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA173316
Entities
People
- Mariane F. Rowland