Daniel Bennett - Reporting War: January 2009 Archives

I've just come across @defencehq. It's the official twitter feed of the Minstry of Defence and more or less exclusively links to Defence News articles. I scrolled back to the first few updates which I couldn't help but have......more

So change has come to America. And change has come to the White House website. The new administration has launched a Presidential blog. It will 'serve as a place for the President and his administration to connect with the......more

Just a couple of other things I picked up today from the BBC. 1. Here's Robin Lustig's blog again, writing from a point of view on Gaza. "You want to know what it's like in Gaza at the moment? It's......more

Journalists like using 'official sources' of information. The theory (take a look at Herbert Gans among others) is that (in a democracy) government spokespeople, the police, officials, press officers etc are more useful to a journalist than other sources.They......more

War 2.0 Adrian Monck assesses Israel's online propaganda operation. He notes: "Back in January 2008, 26 IDF 'combat cameramen' held a fortnight long exercise with US military camera teams, and were "drilled in the use of wireless image transmission......more

My research looks at how the BBC reports war and terrorism and specifically whether blogs make any difference to the way they do it. So here's a rough 'this-is-what-I've-found-first-time-round' draft of how the BBC is using blogs to report......more

News channels rely on far too few Israeli sources and do not represent the diversity of opinion on the conflict in Gaza, according to Jeff who commented on yesterday's post: "There seems to be clear inconsistencies regarding the voices......more

As Israel continues its incursion into the Gaza Strip in response to recent rocket attacks by Hamas, there has already been some interesting discussion about media coverage of the conflict. A few days ago one of my colleagues at......more