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1) News war
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 4 hrs., 30 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[Parts 1-3] Looks at the impact of political, cultural, legal and economic forces on the news media. Traces the recent history of American journalism from Watergate to the war on terror and how the freedom of the press is being challenged.
[Part 4] Examines the rise of Al Jazeera's influence in the Middle East; also profiles reporters who were killed, jailed or exiled in 2006.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
ix, 411 p., [8] p. of plates : photos. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On July 6, 2003, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic op-ed, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," appeared in The New York Times. A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The public disclosure of that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction...
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