The First Casualty : a memoir from the front lines of the global war on journalism
- Bib ID:
- 7466029
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Greste, Peter, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
-
- [Melbourne, Victoria] : Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2017
- ©2017
- 1 online resource (320 pages) : colour illustrations, colour portraits.
- ISBN:
- 1760142255
- Summary:
-
In a world where the first casualty of war is truth, journalism has become the new battleground. Peter Greste spent two decades reporting from the front line in the world's most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his own incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Charged with threatening national security, and enduring a sham trial, solitary confinement and detention for 400 days, Greste himself became a victim of the new global war on journalism. Wars have always been about propaganda but today's battles are increasingly between ideas, and the media has become part of the battlefield. Extremists have staked a place in news dissemination with online postings, and journalists have moved from being witnesses to the struggle to a means by which the war is waged - which makes them a target. Having covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, as well as having spent time in prison in Egypt, Greste is extremely well placed to describe in vivid detail what effect this has on the nature of reporting and the mind of the reporter. Based on extensive interviews and research, Greste shows how this war on journalism has spread to the West, not just in the murders at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo or the repressions of Putin's Russia, but Australia's metadata laws and Trump's phony war on 'fake news'. In this courageous, compelling, vital account Greste unpicks the extent to which modern investigative journalism is under threat, and the fraught quest - and desperate need - for truth in the age of terrorism.
- Notes:
-
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- First casualty : a memoir from the front lines of the global war on journalism
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Feedback
Similar items
- Personal influence; the part played by people in the flow of mass communications, by Elihu Katz and Paul F. Lazarsfeld. With a foreword by Elmo Roper
- The first casualty / Peter Greste
- Media and the Chinese public : a survey of the Beijing media audience / edited by Brantly Womack
- On the rise, progress, and present state of public opinion [electronic resource] : in Great Britain, and other parts of the world
- The phantom public