Don't Mention the War: The Australian Defence Force, the Media and the Afghan Conflict
- ISBN-10
- 1922235180
- ISBN-13
- 9781922235183
- Series
- Don't Mention the War
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-12-01
- Publisher
- Monash University Publishing
- Author
- Kevin Foster
Description
The war in Afghanistan is now the longest and, arguably, worst reported conflict in Australian history. In Don’t Mention the War, Kevin Foster explores why this is so and considers who engineered and who has benefitted from its impoverished coverage. He examines how and why the Australian Defence Force restricted the media’s access to and freedom of movement among its troops in Afghanistan and what we can learn about their motives and methods from the more liberal media policies of the Dutch and Canadian militaries. He analyses how the ADF ensured positive coverage of its endeavours by bringing many aspects of the reporting of the war in-house and why some among the fourth estate were only too happy to hand over responsibility for newsgathering to the military. The book also investigates how political responses to the conflict, and the discourse that framed them, served to conceal the facts and neuter public debate about the war. After more than a decade of evasion and obstruction, half-truths and hype, Don’t Mention the War reveals how politicians, the military and the media failed the public over the Afghan conflict. Here is the real story behind the Australian story of the war.
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Other editions
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- 2007
- 444 pages
- Paperback
- Little Brown Uk
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- 1994
- 368 pages
- Paperback
- Pluto Press
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