《reporting iraq》是2007年10月Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Mike Hoyt。
基本介紹
- 中文名：reporting iraq
- 作者：Mike Hoyt
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781933633343
內容簡介
The world's best known reporters tell the story of what reallyhappened in Iraq in a gripping and gritty narrative history of thewar.
Included are contributions from fifty international journalists,including Dexter Filkins, The New York Times correspondent who wonwidespread praise for his coverage of Fallujah; RajivChandrassekaran, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City;Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post, who won the Pulitzer Prizefor his war coverage; Richard Engel of NBC; Anne Garrels of NPR,and other star reporters from both the print and broadcast world,not to mention their translators, photo journalists, and a militaryreporter.
All come together to discuss the war from its beginning on, andthey hold back nothing on the violence they faced—Farnaz Fassihi ofthe Wall Street Journal talks about her near–kidnapping by "fivemen with AK–47s" chasing her car. ("I kept thinking, 'This isit.'") Nor do they hold back discussing how this impacted theirwork—British reporter Patrick Cockburn of The Independent notesthat "One had to spend an enormous amount of time thinking aboutone's own security," and NPR reporter Deborah Amos observes that itwas even more complicated for women: "As time went on we had todress as Iraqi women, in the most conservative costumes Iraqi womenwould wear."
But perhaps the most fascinating—and chilling—observation is thatmost saw a disaster in Iraq unfolding long before they were allowedto report it. As Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker puts it,various governmental authorities and the media's own fears combined"to keep bad news away from the public," an observation supportedby over 21 stunning, full–color photographs—many of which havenever been published before due to such censorship.
Collected by the editors of America's most prestigious mediamonitor, the Columbia Journalism Review, such revelations makeReporting Iraq a fascinating and unique look at the war, as well asan important critique of international press coverage.
