Description
Book SynopsisCombines critical scholarship with investigative journalism to examine the US government threat to journalists, a threat ignored or dismissed to date.
Trade Review'Reminds us journalists always to ask the question: 'Are we mere messengers and voyeurs of war, or is the message we carry so valuable to the world beyond that it's worth the risk?'' -- John Pilger
'In the shadow of 9/11 Paterson accuses the United States of acting with impunity in its targeting and killing of journalists and media workers. He provides a painstaking, thoughtful and ultimately damning case to answer over military adventures' -- Aidan White, director of the Ethical Journalism Network and former Director General of the International Federation of Journalists
Table of ContentsPreface
1. A Hidden War on the Media
2. The Culture of Press Intolerance: Collaboration and Suppression
3. Patterns of Violence: The Media Installation and the Media Worker
Part I: Escalation
Part II: Expansion of Anti-Press Violence
4. Media Response
5. Legality
6. Invisible Conflict?
Appendix I: A Chronology of Attacks on Media Facilities and Personnel Linked to the U.S. Government
Appendix II: Media Safety and Media Freedom Organisations
Notes
Index
