(2003) Reporting America at war An Oral History. Michelle Ferrari (Compiler), James Tobin (Commentary). (ISBN: 9781401300722)

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About This Book: Reporting America at War: An Oral Histor At the turning points of modern American history, from the beaches of Normandy to the jungles of Southeast Asia, war correspondents have served as our eyes and ears-sometimes even as our conscience. Courageous and controversial, they have captured war in all its brutality, folly, and drama. In the process, they have both reflected and altered America's sense of itself. In this unique book-which covers all of our nation's major conflicts from World War II to the present-personal tales intermingle with explorations of such critical issues as censorship, propaganda, press ethics, and the press's relationship with the Pentagon, both before and after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. 

Together, they form a vivid and illuminating account that is essential reading for all who seek to understand the nature of war and how we learn about it. Ferrari, writer of the PBS series "Reporting America at War," compiles statements by and about US war correspondents from World War II to the 2003 Iraq war. Among them are Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, Morley Safer, Chris Hedges, and Cristiane Amanpour.

The New York Times The Media and the War on Terrorism takes on issues like the reasons many major news organizations, including The Times and the networks' evening news, did not report on the findings of the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century, led by former Senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman, which predicted, in January 2001, a 9/11-type attack. It dissects press issues like covering dissent, the evils of conglomerate ownership and the so-called CNN Effect, the ability of the news media to drive foreign policy.

H.D.S. Greenway Publishers Weekly Beginning with Edward R. Murrow's live reports during the London blitz and ending with an epilogue on the second war in Iraq, this oral history contains transcripts of interviews with 11 top correspondents. Murrow is one of three deceased reporters included (the others are Martha Gellhorn and Homer Bigart), along with Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, Frank Gibney, Malcolm Browne, David Halberstam, Morley Safer, Ward Just, Gloria Emerson, Chris Hedges and Christiane Amanpour. Compared with correspondents who covered WWII and Korea, today's journalists tend to have more campaign ribbons. The New York Times's Hedges, for example, has covered Central America, the Middle East and the Balkans; Amanpour has reported for CNN from the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia, Somalia and Afghanistan.

The correspondents who were in Vietnam-including Homer Bigart and Gloria Emerson-opine on the official disinformation campaign and the corruption of the Saigon regime, while Amanpour, who covered a different kind of war in Somalia, speaks of the impact of the repeated showing of footage of an American soldier's body being dragged through Mogadishu, which she says caused the Clinton administration to curtail the U.S.'s mission there. Tobin's introductions and transitional and informational interpolations within the transcripts hold this informative volume together. Just sums up the book's importance: "As long as there are wars, it is very important to know, in the details, how they are being fought [and] to know the manner in which people are dying. If someone isn't there to report it, it's just a tree crashing in the forest with nobody to hear it." 

The book, a tie-in to a PBS documentary series airing in November, should receive some attention, thanks to a radio interview campaign and print ad. Those who have followed U.S. troops into battle since World War II reflect on their profession in this book published in conjunction with a two-part PBS documentary that aired in November 2003. From daily radio broadcasts and weekly newsreel footage in World.

Synopsis: A unique work of history that examines the story of a pivotal figure in American life, the U.S. war reporter, with contributions from some of the most influential journalists of our time.
Whether dodging sniper fire, accompanying strategic bombing raids over enemy territory, challenging the Pentagon's version of events, or crossing the frontlines to interview figures at the heart of the conflict, war correspondents have served as the eyes and ears of the nation, conveying the facts, the brutality and the drama of warfare, and shaping public opinion in the process.
Now for the first time, in REPOPRTING AMERICA AT WAR, the nation's most respected reporters share their stories to create a fascinating oral history. Contributors include: Christiane Amanpour; Peter Arnett; Malcolm Browne; Walter Cronkite; Gloria Emerson; Frank Gibney; David Halberstam; Chris Hedges; Ward Just Andy Rooney; Morley Safer.
In addition to telling their personal stories, the correspondents examine issues such as censorship, propaganda, ethics, the power of the press, and the future of war reporting, especially after September 11th.

The Reporters: 

	Richard Harding Davis Spanish-American War, World War I		Martha Gellhorn Spanish Civil War, World War II, Vietnam
	Edward R. Murrow World War II		Ernie Pyle World War II
	Walter Cronkite World War II, Vietnam		Andy Rooney World War II
	Robert Capa Spanish Civil War, World War II, Vietnam		Homer Bigart World War II, Korea, Vietnam
	David Halberstam Vietnam		Malcolm W. Browne Vietnam, Persian Gulf
	Gloria Emerson Vietnam		Morley Safer Vietnam
	Peter Arnett Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq		Ward Just Vietnam
	Chris Hedges El Salvador, Nicaragua, The Middle East, Persian Gulf, The Balkans, Afghanistan		Christiane Amanpour Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia, Somalia, The Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq