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A Horrible Fascination: The Military and the Media--Mr. Frederick Chiaventone
Ethics and Embedded Journalists: Beyond Boundaries of Industry Induced Guidelines on Objectivity and Balance--Mr. Ron Martz
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Mr. Frederick Chiaventone—A Horrible Fascination
ReplyDelete•Military-media relationship underwent a fundamental change after the Civil War.
•Photography brought war home to newspaper readers.
•Post Civil War, only 25,000 Soldiers stayed in the Army.
•Correspondents accompanied forces in counter-Indian operations.
•“Four hostile newspapers are more dangerous than 1,000 bayonets.”—Napoleon
Mr. Ron Martz—Ethics and Embedded Journalists: Beyond Boundaries of Industry Induced Guidelines on Objectivity and Balance
ReplyDelete•No such thing as objectivity—we are all products of our environment and upbringing.
•Media report through their own bias.
•Military see media through its bias.
•Disconnect between military and media. Media’s responsibility to bridge that gap.
•Fairness is way to reduce bias and increase objectivity.
•Issues with embedding—how unbiased were reporters? There was concern that embeds would report only good news stories. –“That was proved false very early in the war.”
•Embeds bring understanding and perspective to stories. However, some journalists did compromise their journalistic ethics.
•Joe Galloway story—manning a machine gun during combat. “There are situations reporters are put in that dictate the ethics at hand."
•Journalists are civilians according to Geneva Convention.
•Ethical lines blurred during OIF—Dr. Sanjay Gupta saving lives. “Circumstances dictate how far you are willing to push the ethical line.”—Joe Galloway