The political phenomenology of war reporting

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7478263
AutoresTim Markham (0000-0002-7304-2610, Birkbeck, University of London, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume12
Fascículo5
Páginas567-585
Data de publicação2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884911410016
OpenAlexW1991470401
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas27

Drawing on interviews with war correspondents, editors and political and military personnel, this article investigates the political dimension of the structuration and structuring effects of the reporter’s experience of journalism. Self-reflection and judgements about colleagues confirm that there are dominant norms for interpreting and acting in conflict scenarios which, while contingent upon socio-historical context, are interpreted as natural. But the prevalence of such codes masks the systematically misrecognized symbolic systems of mystification and ambivalence — systems which reproduce hierarchies and gatekeeping structures in the field, but which are either experienced as unremarkable, dismissed with irony and cynicism, or not present to the consciousness of the war correspondent. The article builds on recent theories of journalistic disposition, ideology, discourse and professionalism, and describes the political dimension of journalistic practice perceived in the field as apolitical. It addresses the gendering of war correspondence, the rise of the journalist as moral authority, and questions the extent to which respondent reflections can be defensibly analytically determined

Ambivalence · Context (archaeology · Cynicism · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Gatekeeping · Ideology · Journalism · Media studies · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · History · Law · Social Psychology