Professor Tumber is Dean of the Schools of Arts and Social Sciences, Director of Research for the Graduate School of Journalism, and Co-director of the Centre for Law, Justice & Journalism. Jerry Palmer is an Emeritus Professor based in the Sir John Cass School Department of Art Media and Design at LondonMet and is a scholar noted for his work on the news media. A key theme running through his research is an interest in the ways strategic calculations impact upon mass communications, particularly in the realm of news media.
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PART ONE: THE MEDIA GO TO WAR Journalists Go to War Embedding Down The Safety of Journalists Embedding and Identification Information Management PART TWO: THE MEDIA COVERAGE The Pre-Invasion Phase The Invasion Phase The Post-Invasion Phase PART THREE: THE MEDIA STILL AT WAR Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Hutton Inquiry and the BBC Conclusion Postscript: The Publication of the Hutton Report
"...the authors offer a particularly good discussion of the role of journalists and the place of objectivity, truth, and accuracy...it will be a valuable addition to the literature on media and the war, and US readers will benefit from the British perspective. Recommended." -- L. J. Rosselle * CHOICE Magazine *