Shooting the messenger : the political impact of war reporting

We cite from the cover:
"As the literature on military-media relations grows, it is often fired by antagonism either from journalists who report on wars or from ex-soldiers in their memoirs. Academics who attempt more judicious accounts can rarely boast any professional military or media experience."
"A working knowledge of the operational constraints of both professions underscores Shooting the Messenger. A veteran war correspondent and now a think tank director, Paul L. Moorcraft has served extensively in the British Ministry of Defence, while historian-by-training Philip M. Taylor is a professor of international communications who has lectured widely to the U.S. military and at NATO institutions. Some of the topics they examine in this wide-ranging history of military-media relations are the interface between soldiers and reporters covering conflicts; the sometimes grey area between a reporter's right or need to know and the operational security restrictions imposed by the military; the military's manipulation of journalists who accept it as a trade-off for safer battlefield access; the resultant gap between images of war and their reality; the evolving nature of media technology - and the difficulties — and opportunities — this poses to the military; and the journalistic performance in reporting conflict as an observer or a participant."
CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: The Origins of War Reporting - / Shooting the Messenger - / The Rise of the Specials - / Russell and the Crimean War - / The American Civil War - / The Imperial Wars - / Entente between Pen and Sword
Chapter 2: The the World Wars - / The Wars between the Wars - / The Russian Revolution and Its Repercussions - / Abyssinia - /
The Spanish Civil War - / The Gathering Storm - / The Second World War
Chapter 3: The Cold War (of Words) - / The Korean War - / French Indochina - / Suez: No End of a Lesson - / Algeria: A Savage War - / Britain's Colonial Wars - / America's War on the Doorstep - / Vietnam - / The Empire Strikes Back - / Grenada, Panama, and Haiti - / End of History?
Chapter 4: African "Sideshows"? - / Rhodesia: Arguing with Arithmetic and History - / South Africa - / Somalia
Chapter 5: Europe's Intra-State Conflicts - / Balkan Wars - / Kosovo - / Northern Ireland - / Hidden War: Chechnya
Chapter 6: The Middle East and Afghanistan - / Israel vs. the Palestinians - / Iran - / Afghanistan - / The Gulf War - / The Intifadas - / Media Influence
Chapter 7: The Long War - / Afghanistan - / "With Us or Against Us" - / The Iraq War - / Embed or In Bed? - / Atrocity Stories - / Shaping the Information Space - / The Occupation Fiasco - / The Other Occupation - / Troubles Elsewhere - / Hearts and Minds in the Long Haul
Chapter 8: The Antagonists: The Media, War, and Peace - / The Decline of Foreign News Reporting - / The Media in Post-Conflict Interventions - / The Media Operators: Hidden Persuaders?
Chapter 9: No More Heroes? - / The CNN Effect? - / Hacks versus the Bean Counters - / So We Can't Say That We Didn't Know
Notes - / Selected Bibliography - / Index