Volume 8, Number 3 (Special Issue)
Bulletin Spring 2003 - Special Issue
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Message from the Director
We devote this issue of the Silha Bulletin exclusively to stories about some of the profound ethical and legal challenges facing the news media in the wake of the recent war in Iraq.
The Silha Center’s Spring Forum: A New Kind of Warfare Demands a New Kind of Journalism: Rethinking Journalists’ Wartime Ethics
Members of the Twin Cities’ media and law communities, as well as students and members of the University of Minnesota faculty, grappled with media ethics during wartime at the Silha Center’s 2003 Spring Forum on April 14, 2003.
Journalists Prepare for War: Journalists Attend Boot Camp to Prepare for Combat Conditions
In preparation for their assignments embedded with U.S. Forces, a number of journalists went through “training camps.”
Journalists Prepare for War: Journalists Participate in Embedding Program
The war in Iraq presented novel challenges to reporters working in the region.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: CNN’s Eason Jordan Allegedly Withheld the Truth of Hussein’s Regime
While the war in Iraq was still being fought, CNN’s chief news executive Eason Jordan published an op-ed entitled, “The News We Keep to Ourselves” in The New York Times.
Sidebar: More From CNN . . .
On May 29, 2003, Henry Schuster, reporting for CNN, revealed that on March 27, the Iraqi military fired a missile at coalition forces headquarters.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: Journalists Pay the Consequences of Revealing “Too Much”
The first reporter to be expelled from Iraq by the U.S. military for revealing military secrets was Christian Science Monitor reporter Philip Smucker.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: Doctor-Journalist Performs Operation While on Assignment
Sanjay Gupta, a medical correspondent with CNN, made headlines in early April when he operated on a wounded two-year-old Iraqi boy.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: Images Create Special Ethical Problems When Covering Combat
Media coverage of violent crimes, war, and catastrophes often involves decisions regarding whether or not to show images of the victims.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: Los Angeles Times Photographer Loses Job Over Manipulated Photo
An editor’s note in the Los Angeles Times on April 2, 2003, revealed the newspaper had published an altered front page news photograph in violation of its own policy.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: Clear Channel Radio Stations Sponsor Rallies
In March and April 2003, Clear Channel Worldwide Inc.’s radio stations in several U.S. cities sponsored major “Rally for America” events in support of the military war in Iraq.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: Journalists Grapple With Conflicts of Interest
San Francisco Chronicle reporter Henry Norr was arrested the day after the war began, on March 20, 2003, at a war protest in San Francisco.
Journalists Face the Challenges of Wartime Ethics: CNN Correspondents Used Armed Guards
CNN footage on April 13, 2003, showed CNN correspondent Brent Sandler and a CNN convoy of SUVs, complete with its own armed guard, approaching Tikrit, Iraq, intending to cover the effect of war in that city.
Experts Assess Media’s Coverage of the War in Iraq
Before the war with Iraq officially began, journalism school deans, professors, independent editors, journalists and authors sent an open letter to major media editors, publishers, producers and reporters.
The Media and the Military: U.S. Military Hampers the Work of Journalists
Foreign journalists claim mistreatment by Coalition Forces - U.S. military police were accused of mistreating four foreign journalists following their arrests the night of March 25, 2003.
The Media and the Military: U.S. Military Fires on Journalists’ Hotel
On April 8, 2003, a M1A1 Abrams tank from the 4th Battalion 64th Armor Regiment fired at what was believed to be an enemy lookout in the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad where a number of Western journalists were staying.
The Media and the Military: Questions Surround Rescue Operation of Pfc. Jessica Lynch
Nineteen-year-old army supply clerk Pfc. Jessica Lynch was captured in southern Iraq on March 23, 2003, when her convoy made a wrong turn and was ambushed.
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Deportation Hearings Case
On May 27, 2003, the United States Supreme Court decided it would not review the constitutionality of closed deportation hearings despite a split decision in the Sixth and Third Circuit Courts.
Journalists Who Lost Their Lives in Iraq
Fifteen journalists have died in the war with Iraq.
The Media in Iraq: Al-Jazeera Television
Established in 1996, with financing from the emir of Qatar, Al-Jazeera is the only independent broadcasting organization in the Arab states and is watched by 35 million people in the Arab world.
The Media in Iraq: Iraq Faces Possible Imposition of a New Media Ethics Code
In the weeks since the fall of Hussein’s regime, the media in Iraq have experienced phenomenal growth.
The Media in Iraq: New Media Outlets Growing in Iraq
Although the war with tanks and planes may have ended in Iraq, another war continues.
Eighteenth Annual Silha Lecture: “Political Liberty: Campaign Finance the the Freedoms of Speech and Association”
Join us on Thursday, November 6, 2003 at 7:30 pm for the 18th Annual Silha Lecture featuring Kenneth Starr.