War and the Media: A Random Searchlight / War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War

Journalism History | January 1, 1998| | Copyright

Hudson, Miles, and John Stanier. War and the Media: A Random Searchlight Washington Square: New York University Press, 1998.338 pp. $35.

Nelson, Michael. War of the Black Heavens: The Battles of Western Broadcasting in the Cold War. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1997. 277 pp. $29.95.

War has the effect of bringing into sharp perspective the ideals and foibles of the mass media in a democracy. Few people would say that war is good, yet wars have launched correspondents (William Russell and David Halberstam, for example) as well as entire news organizations (CNN) into prominence. ...

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