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BC an objective observer on the battlefield
(12/4/2001)
Americans feeling good about the course of the war in Afghanistan were provided with a dramatically different side of the story last week in a ''BBC Newshour'' report. The correspondent described a bedraggled Afghan refugee near Kandahar ''extremely upset ... that an American aircraft had just attacked his village.''
8th journalist slaying sparks media retreat
(11/28/2001)
DASHTI QALA, Afghanistan - Several major media organizations pulled out of northern Afghanistan yesterday following the shooting death of a Swedish television correspondent as he slept in a guest house compound in Taloqan.
Do morning news shows sell or tell?
(11/21/2001)
Katie Couric of ''Today,'' Diane Sawyer of ''Good Morning America,'' and Bryant Gumbel of ''The Early Show'' are three of the nation's biggest media stars. But are they journalists or glorified hawkers?
Presumed deaths point to peril journalists face
(11/20/2001)
The war in Afghanistan is turning into one of the most dangerous reporting jobs in recent history. The disappearance yesterday of four journalists caught in an ambush and feared killed on their way to Kabul suggests that fluid front lines, cultural chasms, and an uncertain array of forces on the ground are proving particularly hazardous for those covering the conflict.
Lifestyle coverage a war casualty
(11/19/2001)
One of the institutions thought to have been changed by the events of Sept. 11 is the news media, which abandoned its fascination with soft news, celebrities, and Gary Condit to focus on the largely forgotten topics of war, government, and global politics.
A new ground zero
(11/18/2001)
Declaring that the ''fog of war'' was ''now lifting,'' CNN anchor Paula Zahn tossed the microphone to a reporter on the ground in Mazar-e-Sharif one morning last week. He then described, in grisly terms, a recent battle that had resulted in the deaths of more than 500 men.
A matter of degrees
(11/15/2001)
It's only 11 a.m., but WBZ-TV (Channel 4) forecaster Barry Burbank has already been at his post for seven hours. Because he works the weather-intensive early-morning newscast, the 23-year station veteran will be on the air 27 times this day. As he ponders weather models at a bank of six computers, the phone rings.
Blute, Carr barbs heat up drive-rime dial
(11/14/2001)
WRKO-AM listeners heard something unusual yesterday morning - a high-decibel food fight between two of the station's top personalities, morning cohost Peter Blute and afternoon host Howie Carr. In a heated 10-minute phone exchange that began around 7 a.m., the two added a new chapter to two years of bad blood, stemming from Blute's 1999 departure as Massport director after being caught by the Boston Herald on the infamous ''taxpayer-funded booze cruise'' that featured a topless female passenger.
Television worked to reassure viewers as much as inform them
(11/13/2001)
Cable news networks are often accused of dragging out a big story - from the O.J. Simpson case to the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. - with an endless parade of punditry and chat. Yesterday, they displayed the flip side of the instant TV news industry by illustrating just how quickly they could march toward the resolution of a major event. In a matter of hours, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel took frazzled viewers from the horrifying prospect of another terrorist attack to the presumption that the crash of Flight 587 was a tragic accident.
'Frontline' takes aim at Hussein
(11/8/2001)
Two moments in ''Gunning for Saddam'' speak volumes about where this hourlong ''Frontline'' stands on the issue of America finishing the war - Operation Desert Storm - it fought a decade ago.
India-Pakistan conflict affecting war coverage
(11/7/2001)
Concerns that the government of Pakistan is refusing to give visas to some reporters of Indian ethnicity trying to cover the war in Afghanistan has prompted several journalistic organizations to lodge protests over an issue that appears to be an outgrowth of the simmering tension between India and Pakistan.
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