The Press and the General Staff (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Neville Stephen Lytton

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330948203 ISBN 13 : 9781330948200

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Press and the General Staff

No one had foreseen what a great power for good and evil the Press might become; there were a certain number of correspondents ear-marked for active service, but the idea of accredited correspondents did not appeal to Lord Kitchener. When the clouds of war began to gather, editors of newspapers proceeded to scatter their correspondents on the continent, and it was not till Mr Hamilton Fyfe sent his sensational despatch that the War Ofiice woke up and saw the importance of doing something. General Swinton was appointed as chief eyewitness and proceeded to France. Now in my opinion the ''eyewitness'' system is absolutely wrong. The public is very loath to swallow ''peptonised dope,'' and, moreover, reporting for newspapers is an art like any other, with a technique which has to be acquired by years of practice. The system was short-lived and failed through no fault of the excellent officers who did the work; they had no cabling facilitites, and General Swinton himself has informed me that his despatches were censored by several Generals.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330948203
• ISBN 13: 9781330948200
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 289
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