#war coverage

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Map: Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes — Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

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Burning River Brigade

Sunday morning. Week three. Here's what you need to know. No one is coming. Trump publicly begged China, France, the UK, Japan, and South Korea to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz. France said no. Japan said the legal threshold is "extremely high." South Korea said it will "carefully review." China said everyone should just stop fighting. Nobody volunteered. This is the first public admission that the US cannot reopen the strait alone. Israel is running out of interceptors. Semafor reported it. Israel's foreign minister denied it. Israel then approved an emergency $827 million military budget over the weekend — specifically for munitions replenishment. You don't do that if you're fine. Iran just struck a major US air hub. The IRGC fired missiles and drones at al-Dhafra airbase in the UAE — one of the most important American air operations centers in the region. Iran is now threatening to evacuate three major UAE ports, calling them legitimate targets. Dubai International Airport is within range. Iran is using cluster munitions on Israeli cities. Confirmed in Eilat. Confirmed in the Tel Aviv area. The Israeli military says roughly half of all Iranian ballistic missiles now carry cluster warheads. They burst open at altitude and scatter dozens of bomblets across miles of civilian neighborhoods. Many don't explode on impact. They sit on the ground like landmines until someone walks by. This is banned under international law. Iran never signed the treaty. 53% of Americans now oppose the war. Nearly three quarters oppose sending ground troops. The administration is prosecuting an unpopular war with no exit strategy, a degrading munitions stockpile, no international coalition, and a new supreme leader in Tehran with every personal reason to never back down. The press is being threatened into silence. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned broadcasters this week to "correct course" on war coverage or face license revocation. He then doubled down in a CBS News interview Saturday night. The First Amendment does not have a wartime exception. This is the authoritarian playbook. Documented. On the record. Week three. No exit. No coalition. No interceptors to spare. No free press if he gets his way. What are we being asked to accept as normal?

[mediamattersforamerica]

When it comes to gushing over state violence, the American news media can’t help themselves.

[timbarrus]

NEW YORK TIMES BLACKLIST - Tim Barrus Blog - Tim Barrus - NEW YORK TIMES BLACKLIST

ART BY TIM BARRUS Smash Street

I am a communist. I have been writing about the Rapist's power grabs for months. No one wanted to hear it. The New York Times has blacklisted me. I do not know why. But you can imagine how it feels to wake up in the morning, and find NYT is tied into fits again. You have obliterated my voice, and then you repeat what I have been saying for a long time. You repeat it, and then, you blacklist. What exactly is it you are afraid of. Or am I just being punished. The New York Times is just doing what the Rapist does. Make sure no one else can articulate policy. Only the experts are allowed to speak. NYT is all about the censorship. It doesn't need a red pen. It has musical chairs. Putin and the Rapist play their tunes, and we better dance to them before the cowboys arrive and start shooting at feet. I am not allowed to use the word stupid. NYT writers can use the term promiscuously. While we Little People shut our mouths and smile. It's ordinary. It's as mean as anything the Rapist has done or said. I predict that we will all be looking at photographs of Volodymyr Zelensky's corpse hanging upside down in Red Square. Watch. Wait. And see. While we are watching a corpse twist in the wind, anarchy will make a quick getaway from confinement. As usual, we won't read about it until after it happens. I pity you. We are the people who beat King George at his own game. We are the people who put Hitler in a bunker. We hung Tojo by the neck. We elected the Rapist. We are not allowed a voice.

[ambient-entropy]

I found this on NewsBreak: BBC Arabic reporters backing Hamas on social media say Israeli hostages have been ‘arrested’

I found this on NewsBreak: BBC Arabic reporters backing Hamas on social media say Israeli hostages have been ‘arrested’

BBC Arabic reporters backing Hamas on social media say Israeli hostages have been ‘arrested’ - NewsBreak

The BBC is embroiled in an impartiality row after its journalists appeared to justify the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas. The corpora

[ambient-entropy]

I found this on NewsBreak: MSNBC loses 33% of primetime audience during coverage of Israel war while Fox and CNN surge

I found this on NewsBreak: MSNBC loses 33% of primetime audience during coverage of Israel war while Fox and CNN surge

MSNBC loses 33% of primetime audience during coverage of Israel war while Fox and CNN surge - NewsBreak

MSNBC — which has been slammed for refusing to refer to Hamas attackers as terrorists during its coverage — has lost 33% of its primetime vi

While CNN has been doing an exemplary job of reporting the Israel-Hamas War, MSNBC has been playing biased politics.

[blondesforreagan]

Here's an opinion I wouldn't think I'd ever have: Chris Cuomo's coverage from Tel Aviv on NewsNation is very good. Yes, that Chris Cuomo. It's odd, it's the same guy and he's turning out to be a decent war correspondent. So very, very strange.

[thewolfeinstitute]

From the event The Long Costs of War: Perspectives from a War Correspondent and an Archaeologist, held on Thursday, November 6, 2014 from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Brooklyn College Student Center. 

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis (top photo, and far left, bottom photo) is a visiting assistant professor of classics at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the deputy director of the Manar al-Athar, an open-access photograph archive.

Willem Marx (far right, bottom photo) is a video and print journalist currently working for Bloomberg TV. He recently co-authored Balochistan at a Crossroads (Niyogi Books, 2014) with the French photographer Marc Wattrelot. 

Liv Yarrow (middle, bottom photo), associate professor of classics at Brooklyn College, moderated the panel.

[jayde-alyssab]

War and Trauma Journalism.

This week’s lecture discussed war, famine and disaster journalism and what entails covering stories during these events. I am highly interested in covering war and disaster. After learning about what entails war journalism I feel as though it is something I can do. Even if I only do it once. I would like to do war coverage because I believe that it is important to portray the stories of not just the political parties involved, but of what the citizens feel about the conflict and how war has affected them.   My biggest worry is that I cannot build the emotional blockades that our lecturer told us were important when undertaking this type of journalism. However, I also believe that emotional attachment to the victims of war or disaster is not always a bad thing. I believe compassion may be a good trait to help you relate to the people you will be talking to and taking photos of.

The technicalities of war coverage and the entitlements of the journalist are also such a significant thing to consider when deciding whether you would like to go ahead with traveling to dangerous environments. The discussion in our lecture about the journalist’s rights when dealing with being offered these types of jobs is something that has me quite curious about other journalist’s experiences and the type of hardships that they encountered whilst overseas.

I keep asking myself harsh questions. Will certain countries have problems with female journalists? Will I have the emotional stability to pursue this career? How often are the rights of the journalist upheld? What sort of trouble might I face? Will I be ready for it?

I have experienced my own trauma on a different scale to what other people suffer on a daily basis, I need perspective.

This blog post sums up my feelings on war coverage better than I could hope to say:

http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2012/06/19/my-thoughts-on-war-photography-by-charlie-atkinson/