Название: CNN War in the Gulf
Автор: Thomas B. Allen, F. Clifton Berry, Norman Polmar
Издательство: Turner Publishing
ISBN: 1878685015
Год: 1991
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 52,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
Television viewers throughout the world saw the Persian Gulf War while it happened. War in the Gulf translates the immediacy of that televised war
into the traditional form for recounting events: a book. The idea for the book came from the Cable News Network, which provided the authors with CNN's eyewitness record of the war. The strength of television news is its imagery; the weakness of television is its fleetingness. Images flash past, reporters' words fade away. To preserve this perishable chronicle, CNN turned to a team of book writers. Their sources included the films and transcripts of CNN war coverage. They have made a narrative of instants of war.
Television coverage of the Persian Gulf War changed the face of war. No longer can war be an event faraway in time and place. Television made war immediate. That is part of the story of the Persian Gulf War. Reporting on the war means reporting about television.