The New History of War Reporting: A Historiographical Perspective on the Role of the Media and War.

The following essay argues for a new method of studying the media at war. While past scholarship has focused on war correspondents, censorship, and propaganda, this new history of war reporting instead investigates how news shaped the decisions of commanders on the battlefield. In other words, instead of focusing on how governments and militaries attempted to control the press the new history of war reporting flips the question to investigate how the media influenced the decisions of commanders on the battlefield. This essay drawls from the author's new book The Media Offensive: How the Press and Public Opinion Shaped Allied Strategy during World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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