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In: | Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 9, 2003, 1, S. 22-25 |
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 22-25 |
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ISSN: |
2324-2035
1023-9499 |
DOI: | 10.24135/pjr.v9i1.752 |
veröffentlicht in: | Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa |
Sprache: | Unbestimmt |
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Kollektion: | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef) |
<jats:p>He covers the coverage of wars and the fine borderline that journalists might cross to become propaganda merchants: World War II, Vietnam, The Gulf, Kosovo, to name a few, and now the ‘War on Terror’. And the performance so far of the news media in this latest one has left Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, underwhelmed: civil rights down the drain, public debate and dissent stifled, the news media hardly batting an eyelid. ‘Well, the press in Britain, Australia, and probably New Zealand, did a better job than their American counterparts,’ he sighs, ‘but that’s not saying much.’</jats:p> |