Politics and the media: A crisis of trust?

Parliamentary Affairs

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Stanyer, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 4043174230     PISSN: 00312290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsh034     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. For more details see J. Sancho and J. Glover, Conflict Around the Clock: Audience Reactions to Media Coverage of the 2003 Iraq War, ITC, 2003. http://www.itc.org.uk/uploads/Conflict_around_the_ clock.pdf, November 2003.
2. There has been a tremendous growth in the number of journalists reporting conflicts. Only 27 reporters were allowed to land on the Normandy beaches in 1944; 70 journalists were on the front at any one time during the Korean War; 400 reporters were accredited at the height of the Vietnam war; around 1,500 were involved in coverage of the Gulf War. See J.J. Fialka, Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1991, p. 4; P. Taylor, Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media Since 1945, Routledge, 1997, p. 125.
3. There has been a tremendous growth in the number of journalists reporting conflicts. Only 27 reporters were allowed to land on the Normandy beaches in 1944; 70 journalists were on the front at any one time during the Korean War; 400 reporters were accredited at the height of the Vietnam war; around 1,500 were involved in coverage of the Gulf War. See J.J. Fialka, Hotel Warriors: Covering the Gulf War, Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1991, p. 4; P. Taylor, Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media Since 1945, Routledge, 1997, p. 125.
4. Estimates for the number of journalists 'embedded' with coalition forces ranges from 700 (600 with the Americans and 128 with the British) to 900 (767 with US forces and 136 with the British) (Independent, 10.4.03).
5. For more information on opinion poll findings and the war see R. Mortimore, 'Blair Cannot Count on the Baghdad Bounce', www.mori.co.uk/digest/ 2003/c030502.shtml, May 2003.
6. For more on government/news media relations see J. Stanyer, 'Politics and the Media: A Breakdown in Relations for New Labour', Parliamentary Affairs, April 2003.