TV-Journalisten: Verlierer in der Mutter aller Medienschlachten? Was die Kriegsberichterstattung im Fernsehen so schwierig macht. (TV Journalists: The Losers in the Mother of alle Media Battles? What makes television war reporting so difficult)

Media critics have criticised television reporting on the Gulf
War harshly. Manipulated pictures veiled the reality of the war
instead of rendering it transparent. This essay tries to explain
the deficits of TV reporting, mentioning 3 important causes:
censorship; the necessity to create reports suitable for
broadcasting from very limited photo material; drawbacks in the
processing of photographs into material suitable for TV
broadcasting and TV audiences. Material was subject not only to
the American Press Pool but also to the worldwide capital market
for information. Information had to be seen within the
constraints of this relationship. Only through visualisation of
this censorship - "cleared by Iraqi" or "cleared by US military
censor" - could the one-sidedness of the pictures shown be
mediated to the TV viewers. (Published Summary).