Ebook {Epub PDF} Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 by Lindsay Palmer

Becoming the Story examines the transformation of war reporting in the decade after 9/ Lindsay Palmer delves into times when print or television correspondents themselves received intense public scrutiny because of an incident associated with the work of war reporting. This book covers the decade after 9/11 in journalism, specifically looking at war correspondents. The author focuses on certain high profile examples of journalists becoming the news (Daniel Pearl, Lara Logan, Bob Woodward, to name a few) and uses these examples to make some points about the state of war reporting since 9//5. Summary. "In Becoming the Story, Lindsay Palmer uses cultural and political economic analysis to examine the labor of the war correspondent. Focusing on the first decade of the 21st century, Palmer looks at how this labor is entangled within digitization processes, economic crises, and the political logic of the so-called "war on terror.".

Lindsay Palmer is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research on global media focuses on subjects including digital war reporting, local translators and guides, and virtual reality news stories on international human rights issues. Palmer is the author of two books, Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9. Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/11 The September 11 attacks produced great changes in journalism and the lives of the people who practiced it. Foreign reporters felt surrounded by the hate of American colleagues for "the enemy.". Becoming the Story War Correspondents since 9/11 LINDSAY PALMER "[Palmer] is on to something as she examines how Western audiences and readers are encouraged to empathize with war correspondents as heroes, victims, or martyrs."—New York Review of Books pp. 6 x 9. 10 b w photos. Paperback $; E-book.

This book covers the decade after 9/11 in journalism, specifically looking at war correspondents. The author focuses on certain high profile examples of journalists becoming the news (Daniel Pearl, Lara Logan, Bob Woodward, to name a few) and uses these examples to make some points about the state of war reporting since 9/ Becoming the Story: War Correspondents since 9/ by Lindsay Palmer. Ap issue. War of All Against All. Syria was not the cradle of the Islamic State, but the revolution created a vacuum into which the militants stepped. Becoming the Story examines the transformation of war reporting in the decade after 9/ Lindsay Palmer delves into times when print or television correspondents themselves received intense public scrutiny because of an incident associated with the work of war reporting.