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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.
You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.
The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.
The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and... →
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their... →
Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that... →
They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're... →
Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third... →
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