Journalism, mass media and communication

media and conflict
Answer ONE of the following questions
1. Critically evaluate the argument that the USA lost the Vietnam War because of the way the conflict was reported on television.
2. Reflecting on the reporting of the Falklands war from the frontline, Kim Sabido of Independent Radio News concluded, I don’t think overall we did a very good journalistic job (quoted in Morrison and Tumber 1988: 97). Critically analyse the applicability of journalistic professional norms in war reporting, comparing reporting of the Falklands with at least one other conflict.
3. Give a critical account of the news media’s representation of the Gulf War as clean and bloodless. Discuss the implications for the role of journalism in a democracy.
4. What evidence is there for a CNN effect’? Critically analyse the role of 24 hour global news as a catalyst for humanitarian intervention, with reference to examples.
5. To what extent is the traditional model of the social responsibility of the press still relevant in an age of global media? Discuss, with critical reference to the reporting of genocide.