A half century after the autumn of Saigon, a mythology persists that print and TV information reviews introduced the horrors of battle into American dwelling rooms, undermined public assist for the battle and the navy, and contributed to U.S. capitulation. Within the 1991 Gulf Conflict, with these reminiscences recent within the minds of prime navy brass, the Pentagon sanitized battle correspondence right into a hyperreal, game-like expertise by means of censorship and Common Schwartzkopf’s extremely choreographed briefings. The 2003 invasion of Iraq and the lengthy battle in Afghanistan employed new strategies for controlling the battle narrative, as correspondents have been embedded with U.S. navy models.
This panel will discover the altering nature of battle journalism since Vietnam – and what it means for the conduct or termination of wars fought or backed by america. It options Arnold “Skip” Isaacs, who coated the top of the Vietnam Conflict for the Baltimore Solar, and Azmat Khan, professor of journalism at Columbia College and Pulitzer prize successful journalist for the New York Instances who reported from Afghanistan and Iraq as a contract journalist. Thom Shanker, Director of George Washington College’s Mission for Media & Nationwide Safety and a 25 12 months nationwide safety correspondent for the New York Instances, will average and take part within the dialog.
The dialog will happen on Wednesday, April sixteenth from 1:00 – 2:00 PM Jap Time.
Arnold “Skip” Isaacs is a author, educator, and the writer of “With out Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia” (reissued in 2022) and “Vietnam Shadows: The Conflict, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy”. He was a reporter, international and nationwide correspondent, and editor for the Baltimore Solar. Throughout six years because the Solar’s correspondent in Asia, he coated the closing years of the Vietnam battle and traveled all through Southeast and South Asia. After leaving day by day journalism, he taught or educated journalists and journalism college students in additional than 20 international locations in Jap Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Center East.
Azmat Khan is an investigative reporter for each the New York Instances and Instances Journal and the Birch Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism College, the place she additionally leads the Li Middle for World Journalism. She is writing a guide for Random Home investigating America’s air wars. Her multi-part sequence within the NYT, “The Civilian Casualty Information,” was the end result of greater than 5 years of reporting. Her investigations for the Instances Journal, the PBS sequence FRONTLINE, and BuzzFeed have had widespread coverage impression from Washington to Kabul and gained greater than a dozen awards, together with a Pulitzer Prize in 2022.
Thom Shanker directs the Mission for Media and Nationwide Safety at George Washington College’s College of Media and Public Affairs. He spent 25 years at The New York Instances, together with 13 years masking the Division of Protection, nationwide safety coverage, and fight operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He co-authored the NYT greatest vendor “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Marketing campaign Towards Al Qaeda”. He was beforehand international editor at The Chicago Tribune and a correspondent in Berlin and Moscow, masking the Yugoslav wars and the autumn of the Soviet Union.
