The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting: World War I & World War II, the European Theater

ISBN-10: 0313328889
ISBN-13: 9780313328886
Series: The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting
Pages: 520
Language: English
Published: 2005
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Author: David A. Copeland

Description

Violent, destructive, and murderous like nothing before or since, the world wars mobilized entire societies to support the war effort. Propaganda, censorship, security demands, and military control of press credentialing pressured the media in new and novel ways. Blacks and women became war correspondents in numbers for the first time, while live radio broadcasts and combat film and photography enabled newsmen to report the heroism, tragedy and violence of war in new, more visceral, ways.