Media and War

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The implication being, that in 1982, war reporting reverted back to an era before mass communications. There was a dearth of news from the front line and what made it back was tightly controlled by the Government.</font> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="3"> <hr noshade> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="416" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="203"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><a href="javascript: popup('technolfalkpopb.htm');" title="More">Photo-journalism</a></b><br> There were no photographs from the Falklands for the first 54 days of the conflict. The press therefore filled the vacuum with human interest and home front stories.</font></p> </td> <td width="10"><img src="/web/20060929160659im_/http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="1"></td> <td width="203"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><a href="javascript: popup('technolfalkpopa.htm');" title="More">Reporting from the front</a></b><br> Why was there so little news from the Falkland Islands?</font></td> </tr> </table> <br> <table width="416" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="203"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><a href="javascript: popup('technolfalkpopc.htm');" title="More">Controlling the media</a></b><br> Reporters in the Falklands were reliant on the British forces for their access to the fighting and also their safety. </font></p> </td> <td width="10"><img src="/web/20060929160659im_/http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="1"></td> <td width="203"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><a href="javascript: popup('technolfalkpope.htm');" title="More">House of Commons Defence Committee</a></b><br> In 1982-83 there was an investigation into the handling of press and public information during the Falklands conflict. See the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060929160659/http://www.bopcris.ac.uk/bop1984/ref1289.html">BOPCRIS website</a> for more information.</font></td> </tr> </table> <br> </td> <td width="10"><img src="/web/20060929160659im_/http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/images/spacer.gif" width="10" height="8"></td> <td width="203"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Television</b><br> There was no direct TV transmission. TV reports were what Julian Barnes calls "radiovision": reporters' voices accompanied by still images.</font></p> <p><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"I counted them all out, and I counted them all back."<br> </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Journalists often found clever ways around reporting restrictions.</font><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">BBC reporter Brian Hanrahan's phrase, <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"I counted them all out, and I counted them all back",</font> is one such example. 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