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People`s Witness: The Journalist in Modern Politics Hardcover – April 1, 2002
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Fred Inglis tracks the flamboyant biographies of giants of the genre, from the early newspapermen during the Russian revolution to those who reported on the Spanish Civil War, the hideous discoveries at Dachau, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He scrutinizes news proprietors such as Joseph Pulitzer, Katharine Graham, and Rupert Murdoch; writer-journalists like George Orwell, Evelyn Waugh, Andre Malraux, and Martha Gellhorn; and journalists of conscience―William Shirer in Nazi Germany, James Cameron in Asia, Neil Sheehan in Vietnam, Norman Mailer at the Pentagon, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein after Watergate, and others. Inglis examines the great pioneers of broadcast news journalism, notably Ed Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Alistair Cooke, as well as such contemporary journalists as Christopher Hitchens and the BBC’s John Simpson. He explores the relations between political journalists and their all-powerful proprietors and exposes fascinating instances of pomposity, misjudgment, and downright untruthfulness, as well as moments of courage and responsibility.
In turns wise, insightful, funny, and biting, this sweeping narrative measures each journalist against the best principles of the vocation and silhouettes some of their most dramatic life stories against the moral horizons of the epoch.
- Print length336 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication dateApril 1, 2002
- Dimensions6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100300093276
- ISBN-13978-0300093278
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This revealing account of the major players in journalistic history details the impact journalists have had on the outcomes of war. -- Library Journal
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- Publisher : Yale University Press; First Edition (April 1, 2002)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0300093276
- ISBN-13 : 978-0300093278
- Item Weight : 1.8 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1.5 x 9.25 inches
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A few minor grumbles : Izzy Stone's account of the Wake Island meeting between MacArthur and Truman (15th October 1950) is, as Inglis rightly points out, inferential, but he still repeats it verbatim. The significance of the timing (3 weeks before the mid-term Congressionals) is ignored : part of Truman's reason for making the journey to Wake Island would surely have been to associate himself publicly with his leading field commander at a time when the Korea conflict was going very well for the United Nations forces. MacArthur was a complex character, arrogant, yes, but as America's greatest 20th century general, not without some justification, but certainly not the madman described here. I'm not sure that Ceausecu's execution necessarily fitted his crimes : if we executed every politician who allowed himself to be overthrown, the list of candidates would be a long one. Lastly, I'm not sure why the wartime BBC newsreader Bruce Belfrage (pages 171 & 174) is referred to as Cedric : he always gave his name on radio as Bruce.
However, these are minor quibbles. This book is a splendid portrayal of a world in which the written and spoken word have been replaced gradually by TV and the immediacy of live coverage. However, that gain has been at the expense of the descriptive power of language itself.