Reporting Conflict

Reporting Conflict New Directions in Peace Journalism - New Approaches to Peace and Conflict

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Publisher's Synopsis

Journalists control our access to news. By pitching stories from particular angles, media set the agenda for public debate. In Reporting Conflict, Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung challenge reporters to tell the real story of conflicts around the world. The dominant kind of conflict reporting is what Lynch and Galtung call war journalism: conflicts are seen as good versus evil, and the score is kept with body counts. The media's handling of 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq highlight the one-sided reporting that war journalism creates. Peace journalism uses a wider lens: why not report what caused the conflict, and how it might be resolved? Lynch and Galtung show how journalists could have taken a broader approach to reporting conflicts like the Korean War and the NATO bombing of Kosovo to spark a more constructive public debate. This provocative book is essential reading for everyone who wants the media to tell the whole truth about conflict.

Book information

ISBN: 9780702237676
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Imprint: University of Queensland Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 070.44930366
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiii, 225
Weight: 363g
Height: 230mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 23mm