JMSC 0046

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JMSC 0046

• Introduction to Television
• and TV News
• Lecture Seven
• 12 March 2009
• Jim Laurie

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This Week

• Main Topic
• Television News
• And War
• A personal history
• To peak your interest
• For further study

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Videos in this lecture

• ABC News Archive Bosnia War 1992
• BBC News Archive 2005-2006
• NBC News archive
• Vietnam Look Back by Jim Laurie 2000
• Afghanistan War Coverage by Jim Laurie 2001

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Note on Research Projects

• Tutorials tomorrow cancelled
• Resume March 20th
• Use time to work on your projects
• Available for consultation
• Eliot G-21
• Will post your projects on the weblog
• Please correct by e-mail...

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War Bang Bang

• A Personal note my war experience
• Because TV does it best there is an
• obvious appetite for war, conflict, and
  disaster news
• Many reporters photographers
• take great risks to provide those
• television images
• For 40 years TV has brought war into homes around
  the world

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A Gallery of KIAs

• Neil Davis Thailand Rory Peck Russia Paul
  Douglas Iraq
• 
  

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Bang Bang

• The Combat Journalist
• The Freelancer
• Whats a freelancer in journalism?
• The Rory Peck Awards SHOW BBC VHS tape
• Further reading or viewing
• http//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3276575.s
  tm

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The First Casualty of War

• Truth
• Television presents an incomplete and often
  distorted image of war.
• A picture is worth a thousand words but may not
  always portray the whole story or the whole
  truth.

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Vietnam - 1968

• This picture both as a still and in video
  pictured Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnams
  national police chief executing a prisoner who
  was said to be a Viet Cong captain. Once again
  the public opinion was turned against the war.

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Iraq War - 2003

• April 9, 2003 Baghdad Taken. People of Iraq
  rid themselves of images of Saddam Hussein by
  tearing down his statue in central Baghdad. Q
  Truth behind the picture.

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Baghdad April 9, 2003

• BAGHDAD, Date April 9, 2003 Author ELLEN
  KNICKMEYER and DAVID CRARY, Associated Press
  Writers
• Saddam Hussein's rule over the capital has ended,
  U.S. commanders declared Wednesday, and jubilant
  crowds swarmed into the streets here, dancing,
  looting and cheering U.S. convoys. A Marine tank
  helped residents topple a giant statue of Saddam
  in a sweeping, symbolic gesture.
• In the most visible sign of Saddam's
  evaporating power, the towering statue of the
  Iraqi president was brought down in the middle of
  Firdos Square. Cheering Iraqis, some waving the
  national flag, scaled the statue and danced upon
  the downed icon

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Baghdad April 9, 2003

• Versions of truth
• Did the picture tell the whole story
• Staged? Minority celebrating?
• Al Jazeera Arabic News Channel
• Control Room Iraq (2004) a film by
• Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim
  10655 to 11507

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War and Truth

• Can you think of other examples which illustrate
  distortions portrayed by television ?
• Where
• Truth is a casualty of war?
• Can television alter the outcome of a war?
• Can television alter war policy?

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The Vietnam War

• While TV covered the Korean War in the 1950s,
  television was still in its infancy
• Ten years later TV was the prominent medium
• Vietnam coverage 1960 -1975
• Vietnam War
• History http//www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/
  vietnam/index.cfm
• Coverage
• http//videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/18379-the-fir
  st-television-war-reporting-from-me-kong-delta-vid
  eo.htm

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Next Week

• Examine
• Finish War, Discuss War
• Start International Public Service Broadcasting
• The end

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JMSC 0046

• Introduction to Television
• and TV News
• Lecture Seven
• 12 March 2009