The latest casualty: Phillip Knightley and media failure

  • Louise Matthews
Keywords: truth, censorship, media ethics, media freedom, propaganda, war correspondence, war on terror, war reporting

Abstract

He covers the coverage of wars and the fine borderline that journalists might cross to become propaganda merchants: World War II, Vietnam, The Gulf, Kosovo, to name a few, and now the ‘War on Terror’. And the performance so far of the news media in this latest one has left Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty, underwhelmed: civil rights down the drain, public debate and dissent stifled, the news media hardly batting an eyelid. ‘Well, the press in Britain, Australia, and probably New Zealand, did a better job than their American counterparts,’ he sighs, ‘but that’s not saying much.’

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Published
01-09-2003
How to Cite
Matthews, L. (2003). The latest casualty: Phillip Knightley and media failure. Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 9(1), 22-25. https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v9i1.752