JMSC 0046

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JMSC 0046

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

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This Week

• Conclude Discussion
• Of War and TV News
• And Move on to PSB
• Public Service
• Broadcasting

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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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The Vietnam War

• War coverage far different from today
• Technology
• Freedom to cover
• Like Iraq a propaganda war
• Affected lots of people for civilians,
  soldiers, reporters defining moment
• Look Back TV program 2004

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Vietnam War

• Long argued that TV images of the Vietnam War
  lost the war for the Americans
• Impact wore down resolve
• The Uncensored War The Media and Vietnam by
  Daniel Hallin (UCAL 1992)
• Web source
• http//www.globalissues.org/article/402/medi
  a-propaganda-and-vietnamThemedialostthewarforAmer
  ica

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Vietnam War

• Many of the camera people during the Vietnam War
  were Asians
• Vietnamese, Hong Kongers, Singaporeans, Koreans
  working for Western News agencies and TV networks
• Yet Asian broadcasters did not cover extensively
  an Asian war until 2001.

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Afghanistan War

• Because of its geographic location
• And timing just after 9/11 2001
• More reporters covered the war in a short period
  than other Asia Wars
• Watch report on coverage in November 2001

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History of War Coverage

• See The Museum of Broadcast Communications (on
  line)
• http//www.museum.tv/archives/etv/W/htmlW/warontel
  evi/warontelevi.htm
• Note the bibliography

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Further reading

• http//journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/ReadMe/article.p
  hp3Fid66.html
• Digital Journalism in the 2000s