embedded journalism

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WHEN & WHERE FIRST USED…?

WHY THEY USED??FIRST-HAND OBSERVATIONS DEEPER CONNECTION TO MILITARY ACCURATE REPORTS

775reporters and photographers were traveling as embedded journalists

15had died in less than 3 month

1.3%death rate among embedded journalists

Richard Engel

Richard Engel

I’m invincible This is dangerous

I’m going to get hurt I’m going to die

I’m invincible This is dangerous

I’m going to get hurt I’m going to die

I’m invincible This is dangerous

I’m going to get hurt I’m going to die

I’m invincible This is dangerous

I’m going to get hurt I’m going to die

DANGERSRISK

BIASEDBAD NAME

the medium is the message

Marshall McLuhan

IMAGES OF WAR FROM HISTORY…

MANUFACTURING ENTERTAINMENT

MANIPULATING FACTS

DRAMATIZATION OF WAR

UNNECESSARY VIOLENCE

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• Engel, R. (2008). War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq. New York, NY: SIMON & SCHUSTER.

• MANNING, C. (2014, June 14). The Fog Machine of War. © 2015 The New York Times Company.

• Powell, B. A. (n.d.). Reporters, commentators visit Berkeley to conduct in-depth postmortem of Iraq war coverage. Retrieved November 5, 2015, from UC Berkeley News website: www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/15_mediatwar.shtml

• RT America. (2012, February 27). Embedded Journalists in War and Politics [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ6fqV2jdMM

Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2015. 

• Thorn, A. (n.d.). Fifteen journalists die while covering war in Iraq. Retrieved from © Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press website: https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-law/news-media-and-law-spring-2003/fifteen-journalists-die-whi

IMAGES:http://giphy.com/http://alsumaria.tv/http://photowalkingmunich.de/1945 Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, photo: Joseph John Rosenthal1968 Saigon execution. Photographer Eddie Adams1972 Napalm Girl Photo, Photographer Nick Ut1991 Gulf War. Photo David Turnley, World Press Photo of the Year