Open AccessCNN war porn, 'shock and awe' and a set designed in Hollywood
Author(s) -
Alastair P. Thompson
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v9i1.754
Subject(s) - hollywood , censorship , nothing , publishing , project commissioning , law , public interest , media studies , spanish civil war , set (abstract data type) , sociology , freedom of the press , shock (circulatory) , political science , art history , art , philosophy , epistemology , politics , computer science , medicine , programming language
The role of the media in civil society is to inform and illuminate in the public interest, to provide the public with an informed basis upon which they can exercise their demoractic rights. Nothing changes during wartime. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham once remarked, 'As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.'