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Death in a time of life | Snowblog
Why her, why not another of us? All of us make snap judgements – to travel down that road – to engage with those troops – to fly on that plane, and we live. But sitting in the church this morning surrounded by some of the very best of British journalism, I felt overwhelmed by a sense of what is good about our trade. So much bad has flowed from the scandal that has gushed across Lord Leveson’s desk, in and out of assorted police stations, back pockets and the rest, that one begins to feel tarred with the same brush.

And we are not and she was not. We are the servants of the people – their eyes and ears, and what we do is of profound value to understanding the world in which we live. Amid the democratisation of information, we are the tribunes. Sometimes we fail to recognise the pivotal role we play and the responsibility that flows from it.
MarieColvin  JonSnow  2012  warreporting  journalism  from delicious
8 days ago by Dan_10v11
BBC | BBC College of Journalism Blog - How has embedding changed since the Falklands?
The debate over the Iraq War still rages too intensely to make a judgment on whether journalism or self-censorship and military management of the media triumphed. The BBC's own internal report concluded that many lessons could be learned on both sides.
Falklands  2003  Iraq  warreporting  CarolineWyatt  2012  collegeofjournalism  BBC  from delicious
5 weeks ago by Dan_10v11
Afghan Blue III » Blog Archive » The Red In The Center Of The Patch
The news stories about the event are disturbing.   Some stories reported that they were acting like a bunch of battlefield tourists, strolling in the park and taking pictures.  Some depicted the soldiers as having opened fire indiscriminately in the aftermath of the attack, killing children in the process.  One such story appeared in Stars and Stripes, of all places, who apparently cut and pasted their story directly from al Jazeera.  None of them are true.  Not one American fired a shot following the blast.  They were performing a mission, not wandering around like a bunch of carefree war tourists.

Newspapers in the US and the UK published photos of the grim aftermath, violating the dignity of the dead and dying.   For that, I am eternally angry.  The editors of any publication that did so had best never meet me and be identified as being responsible for the publication of such war porn.  It would not go well for them.  Just because they could didn’t mean that they should.
warreporting  war  media  news  2012  OldBlue  blogging  Afghanistan  from delicious
6 weeks ago by Dan_10v11
‘We live in fear of a massacre' | The Sunday Times
Marie Colvin's final dispatch from Homs for the Sunday Times. She was killed on 22 February after a mortar hit an improvised media centre in the city.
Syria  warreporting  journalism  2012  MarieColvin  SundayTimes  from delicious
february 2012 by Dan_10v11
Bambuser: Bambuser now blocked in Syria
Bambuser now blocked in Syria
Yesterday morning Bambuser was blocked in Syria. The Syrian government has chosen to deny citizens in Syria access to bambuser.com as well as use of Bambuser's mobile apps over Syrian 3G.

Over the past weeks the number of Bambuser broadcasts from Syria has increased, with strong footage showing bombings, victims, destruction and terrible conditions at local field hospitals in Syria.

Two days ago an oil pipeline in Homs was destroyed. A citizen in Homs who has been broadcasting bombings over several days broadcast the black smoke that developed from the explosion, with the sound of gunfire and shelling of Homs accompanying the footage bambuser.com/v/2369044. The live footage was used by major TV media like CNN, BBC, AlJazeera, SkyNews and many more, with credentials to Bambuser. The impact of those videos very likely came to the Syrian government's knowledge.
media  warreporting  censorship  2012  Syria  Bambuser  from delicious
february 2012 by Dan_10v11
Bambuser: We mourn the loss of a very brave Syrian journalist
We mourn the loss of a very brave Syrian journalist
This morning LIVE footage by one citizen journalist, Rami Ahmad Alsayeed -  also known as one of the people behind the broadcaster Syriapioneer on Bambuser, was aired all over the world by BBC World, SkyNews, Al Jazeera and many more. All showed live footage from the roof where Rami and his friends have put their camera, as they've done many times documenting the heavy shelling from the Assad Forces hovering over BabaAmr in Homs, Syria. Rami Ahmad Alsayeed has for months been one of the bravest and forefront fighters in getting the world's attention on what’s going on in Homs, Syria. This afternoon, cameraman and journalist Rami Ahmad Alsayeed did his last broadcast – he and three of his friends were soon after this killed by the Assad armed forces on the streets of BabaAmr.
video  warreporting  war  live  journalism  2012  Homs  Syria  Bambuser  from delicious
february 2012 by Dan_10v11
Ariel - Gadaffi death footage cleared by Ofcom
Ofcom has decided not to investigate complaints about graphic tv images of Colonel Gaddafi's bloodied dead body, shown by BBC News and other broadcasters.

In its latest bulletin the regulator records 25 complaints made about footage and still images shown on BBC One following the Libyan dictator's death on October 20. The BBC itself received hundreds of complaints.

Having assessed the complaints, Ofcom had decided they 'did not raise issues warranting further investigation'. Coverage of events from the town of Sirte that day been 'appropriately limited' on both sides of the watershed, Ofcom said.
BBC  Ariel  Gaddafi  2011  ethics  warreporting  journalism  media  news  editorialpolicy  from delicious
december 2011 by Dan_10v11
Mark Austin: 'Because we can, doesn't mean we should' - Press Gazette
But the horrific truth is that more than 70 per cent of the journalists killed in the last two decades were murdered in cold blood. And here is the scandalous statistic. In 80 per cent of those cases, yes 80 per cent, the killers are not brought to justice.
MarkAustin  warreporting  2011  pressgazette  journalism  Libya  ITV  from delicious
november 2011 by Dan_10v11
Television Still Struggles to Bring War Zones Home - NYTimes.com
Scripted mini-series, too, have taken on the impact of the wars; in 2008 HBO was praised for the mini-series “Generation Kill,” based on an embedded reporter’s experience in Iraq. But for the most part, “I think network executives think war zones are too rough and real for American viewers to watch week to week,” Ms. Gordon said. “Americans are used to stylized violence,” not war violence, she added, citing “ ‘CSI’ dead bodies, car chases with gunplay, vampires killing people, and now zombies slowly chasing their prey in a never-ending pursuit.”

A zombie attack, it’s fair to say, is less likely to affect a family than a military deployment.
NewYorkTimes  2011  war  warreporting  USA  Afghanistan  Iraq  GenerationKill  HBO  from delicious
october 2011 by Dan_10v11
BBC | BBC College of Journalism Blog - Reporting conflict: competition, pressures and risk
Coverage of armed conflict requires meticulous preparation, but also a little bit of recklessness. Recklessness because, with all your knowledge and experience, you can never predict what will happen next.

My main question about the coverage of Libya this summer by the British media is not about why Sky News was the first in the streets of liberated Tripoli, but why after that it was left to researchers from Human Rights Watch to discover documents with unsavoury details of links between the British secret service and the Gaddafi regime. And why it was a US network, CNN, which tracked down the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
warreporting  Libya  ArabSpring  2011  BBC  CollegeofJournalism  SkyNews  AlexCrawford  journalism  from delicious
october 2011 by Dan_10v11
BBC News - Hazards of war reporting from the Libyan front line
In a world of Hollywood war films, there is something almost disappointing about how real war looks on screen. The desire for better pictures can lure you into increasingly dangerous places.
BBC  AlastairLeithead  2011  Libya  warreporting  from delicious
september 2011 by Dan_10v11
Libya: Bloggers Between Dictatorship and War · Global Voices
Six months on and it is heartbreaking to look at how eerie the Libyan blogosphere is, row upon row of bloggers in Libya are silent because of the Libyan war. From the silent ones you realize that they are in the cities under Gaddafi control and therefore have no access to the internet.<br />
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The Libyan war though has brought some of the bloggers out of the woodwork at least those that had left the country for studying.
Libya  blogging  2011  GlobalVoices  war  warreporting  from delicious
august 2011 by Dan_10v11
Sky News reporter Alex Crawford praised for dramatic Tripoli reporting - Africa, World News - Independent.ie
Sky News sources told The Daily Telegraph that the astonishing footage from the streets of Tripoli was produced using an Apple Mac Pro laptop computer connected to a mini-satellite dish that was charged by a car cigarette lighter socket.
Independent  Sky  2011  Libya  AlexCrawford  warreporting  from delicious
august 2011 by Dan_10v11
BBC - The Editors: The Wars You Don't See
He's right to identify the danger - "embedding" only ever provides one piece of the jigsaw. That's why, in Baghdad and Kabul, the BBC - at some cost and risk - has bureaux that report the other bits of the story. In Iraq, Gabriel Gatehouse and Jim Muir have covered the threats to Baghdad's Christians, while in Kabul, our opinion poll this week focused on the attitudes of the people of Afghanistan - not the military.
war  warreporting  2010  JonWilliams  JohnPilger  media  embed  Iraq  Afghanistan  from delicious
december 2010 by Dan_10v11
Colvin: why we journalists must continue going to war despite the dangers | Media | guardian.co.uk
"Covering a war means going to places torn by chaos, destruction, and death... and trying to bear witness. It means trying to find the truth in a sandstorm of propaganda when armies, tribes or terrorists clash.<br />
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And yes, it means taking risks, not just for yourself but often for the people who work closely with you.<br />
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Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs and pinpoint strikes... the scene on the ground has remained remarkably the same for hundreds of years.<br />
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Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and husbands. Men for their wives, mothers children.<br />
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Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.
media  guardian  journalism  foreigncorrespondent  warreporting  2010  from delicious
november 2010 by Dan_10v11
BBC | BBC College of Journalism Blog - The limits of foreign news coverage
The respected Media Standards Trust is publishing a timely report, Shrinking World, which charts an extraordinary drop in the press coverage of foreign places since 1979. <br />
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This evidence follows The Great Global Switch-Off report by Phil Harding, formerly a BBC executive, last year which looked critically at the wider question of media coverage of foreign news. Of course, arguably, detailed news about the wider world is there for those who want to look for it - especially on the web. But the point remains that it is missing from the average news diet.
foreigncorrespondent  BBC  CollegeofJournalism  research  2010  warreporting  journalism  from delicious
november 2010 by Dan_10v11
Iraq war logs: US fails to answer for deaths of journalists | World news | guardian.co.uk
Iraq has been one of the most dangerous recent wars for the media. Fifty-two journalists have died in crossfire or other combat situations and 89 have been murdered. Almost all of the murdered journalists were Iraqis, usually as victims of the sectarian violence that began three years after the US invasion.<br />
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One of the most notorious incidents was the killing of Asaad Kadhim and his driver, Hussein Saleh, who worked for the US-funded TV station al-Iraqiya. They were shot by US troops outside a base at Samarra, 80 miles north of Baghdad, on 20 April 2004. At a press conference Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the deputy director of operations for coalition forces in Iraq, said there were signs banning filming or stopping near the base. US forces at the entrance warned the driver to stop by firing several shots. When they were ignored, Kimmitt said, forces fired at the car.
Iraq  IraqWarLeak2010  2010  guardian  journalism  warreporting  Usmilitary  AsaadKadhim  HusseinSaleh  2004  from delicious
october 2010 by Dan_10v11
Afghanistan War | Kandahar | Taliban
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – A major military operation involving hundreds of American troops, U.S. Special Forces and heavy bombers dropping 2,000-pound bombs on Taliban command and control centers wrapped up last week, concluding a critical phase in the campaign to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province.<br />
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But no journalists were there to witness the operation.<br />
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U.S. military officials told journalists who had arrived to Kandahar Airfield for embeds in the Arghandab district between Oct. 1 and Oct. 15 that logistical problems had caused their embeds to be cancelled.<br />
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Maj. Randy Taylor, head of the Media Support Center at Kandahar Airfield, said the cancelled embeds were not an attempt by the military to limit media coverage of the war in the Arghandab district, long advertised by the U.S. military as one of three key objectives of this summer and fall's campaign in Kandahar province.
Kandahar  2010  embed  journalism  WarReporting  Afghanistan  from delicious
october 2010 by Dan_10v11
'We're in perpetual beta, but it's in a very useable form': the role of Al Jazeera labs
That may be the case, but a wider audience is now watching Al Jazeera's English and Arabic channels via social media, especially for their coverage of the war in Gaza. The Al Jazeera Gaza Twitter handle, @AJGaza, had 5,773 followers at time of writing, while maps of the conflict using the Ushahidi project attracted attention across the net.
Gaza  Al-Jazeera  Ushahidi  2009  warreporting  journalism.co.uk 
september 2010 by Dan_10v11
Afghanistan and journalism: who’s winning the media war? | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
One of the most interesting things to emerge was a perceived multiplication of casualties through military procedures and the 24-hour news cycle. Soldiers “die” five times: when the incident happens, when their name is announced by the MoD, when the body comes home and through Wooton Bassett, at their funeral and at the inquest into their death. So the 330 plus British casualties to date in Afghanistan can seem like many more thanks to this rule, hence the lingering but dwindling public support for the War.
Afghanistan  media  journalism.co.uk  2010  BritishArmy  casualties  warreporting 
september 2010 by Dan_10v11
Breaking the news when it matters most « The Official British Army Blog
Next on the cards was Operation TOR SHEZADA or Black Prince. This was to be the biggest operation of the tour for 4th Mechanized Brigade; an offensive move to clear the Taliban-held town of Sayedebad.
BritishArmy  news  warreporting  blogging  2010  combatcamera  BBC 
september 2010 by Dan_10v11
Army commander to tweet from the front line - Telegraph
Lieutenant Colonel Dougie Graham, commanding officer of the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, said he plans to send regular updates during their six-month tour.
Twitter  warreporting  Telegraph  2010  BritishArmy 
september 2010 by Dan_10v11
BBC News - From war zone to boomtown for Helmand capital
Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand province, was a war zone when the BBC's Bilal Sarwary visited four years ago. Upon his return he discovers it completely transformed.
LashkarGah  2010  BBC  Afghanistan  Helmand  warreporting 
august 2010 by Dan_10v11
WikiLeaks and the war in Afghanistan : The New Yorker
That same month, American soldiers in Balkh Province, in the north of Afghanistan, were planning a search-and-clear operation. It was not going well. According to a report written by a member of Task Force Warrior, a unit of the 10th Mountain Division, local civilians would not coöperate, whereupon Afghan soldiers and policemen “harassed and beat” them. The area’s residents “had a negative opinion” of their nation’s security forces, the writer noted. A police district commander
NewYorker  2010  Afghanistan  WarLogLeak2010  wikileaks  war  journalism  warreporting 
august 2010 by Dan_10v11
What if there are no secrets? « BuzzMachine
In the war logs, we are learning things we should know. It’s the leakers...who are deciding what not to make public (with some consultation, post-leak, from government) and what should be open. So government loses the ability to decide secrets. Now leakers do. Which side do we trust to decide?
journalism  secrecy  Wikileaks  WarLogLeak2010  JeffJarvis  afghanistan  transparency  access  embed  warreporting 
august 2010 by Dan_10v11
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