Compare And Contrast The Way T
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Compare and Contrast the way in which the media has handled the Falklands War and the Gulf War.
"You can win the battle but lose the war if you don't handle the story right."
General Colin Powell in a speech to the National Defence University, 1990.
Both the Gulf War and the Falklands War were extr ....
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.... (1). The British media suffered several problems in covering the Falklands. First of all there was the location of the islands. Being 8,000 miles away from the United Kingdom and more than 400 miles away from the nearest landmass and also being subject to a total exclusion zone the Ministry of Defence had the sole say in how many if any correspondents it would let sail with the task force. The MoD only accepted British correspondents and it has been argued that those that were accepte ....
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