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...FIRST CASUALTY. From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker by PHILLIP KNIGHTLEY...
...hard to believe that before Phillip Knightley took time out from his journalistic duties for London's Sunday Times to write his history of war correspondents, the subject had lain underfoot like an undiscovered gold mine. The events are momentous. As for the correspondents, they are an irresistible assortment of idealists, artists, cads, hustlers, violence junkies and necrophiles...
...Knightley's lightly armed narrative charges from the Crimean War, where the modern techniques of reporting and censorship began, to Viet Nam, where television brought packaged blood and flame into the home and censorship was abandoned in favor of a massive public relations campaign to sell the war. Famous locations and faces flash by in Knightley's 120-year extravaganza, but some things never change. In the correspondents' rush to be first with the news, the truth is usually distorted and sometimes sacrificed. Sooner or later, a government official gets around to asking a zealous reporter, "Whose...
...become commonplace to say that the Viet Nam War was the most thoroughly covered in history. The cost in correspondents remains shocking: 45 killed, 18 missing. Author Knightley has high praise for those professionals who not only had to unravel the official lies and distortions but also had to fight Stateside editors who trusted Washington's optimistic version of events...
Died. The Right Rev. Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton, 71, Dean of Windsor since 1944 and as such, chaplain to the first laymen of the Anglican Church, the late King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in Windsor, England...