News from no man's land : reporting the world / John Simpson
- Bib ID:
- 2212821
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Simpson, John, 1944-
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- Description:
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- London : Macmillan, 2002
- xx, 471 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0333905741
- 1405006374
- Summary:
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"On 13 November 2001, John Simpson and a BBC news crew walked into Kabul and the liberation of the Afghan capital was broadcast to a waiting world. It was the end of a sustained campaign against the Taliban, a campaign that Simpson had covered from the beginning, despite appalling difficulties and, often, great danger." "In this, his third volume of autobiography, John Simpson focuses on how journalists set about finding the stories that make the headlines. Drawing on his own vast experience, he shows how news stories arise and are selected and developed, how the most improbable leads can result in a scoop and how weeks of work can never see the light of day. He discusses the frustrations of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or of missing a major news event by just one day. He talks about the mechanics of news gathering and describes how reporters and television crews reach the places where news breaks, whether it's by smuggling themselves across borders disguised in burkas, spending a good deal of the licence fee on bribing local brigands or driving in dilapidated jeeps across dry river beds." "Simpson talks, too, about the pressures placed on journalists, from ethical issues and how to tackle them to government interference, from foreign governments seeking to suppress adverse news and from our own. Drawing on occasionally bitter experience, he advises how best to tackle such pressures from higher authorities, be they cabinet ministers, hostile police forces in foreign countries or even other parts of the media."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations ix
- Maps xi
- Introduction xvii
- 1. A Short Walk to Kabul 1
- 2. The Journalistic Imperative 13
- 3. The Archaeology of Television News 41
- 4. Hidden Agendas 73
- 5. The Use of Words 108
- 6. Truth or Consequences 148
- 7. Under the Burka 175
- 8. Pressure Points 206
- 9. Manhunt 234
- 10. Dumbing Down 266
- 11. Crossing the Oxus 293
- 12. Hard Travelling 320
- 13. Teamwork 357
- 14. Live from the Front Line 387
- 15. Finishing the Job 420
- Epilogue 450
- Index 461.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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