Reporting Conflict: the Media and the Armed Services

Abstract

The way international conflicts are reported has recently been brought into sharp focus, perhaps more than at any time since the end of the Second World War, even including the war in Vietnam. Our own experiences during the Falklands conflict led to an inquiry by the House of Commons Defence Committee into the way the news media were handled. Only last year the manner in which the American media felt that they had been excluded from the early stages of the United States’ operation in Grenada led to a public row.