Throughout the twentieth century, especially during wartime and the Cold War, intelligence agents routinely used the media to publish and broadcast material that would deceive external enemies, thwart domestic subversion or simply to change the way readers thought about fascism or communism. Today stories are chanelled to journalists in order to promote a news agenda deemed favourable to MI5, MI6 or to the CIA, or to 'spin' the coverage of key issues. Investigative reporters often have a more adversarial relationship with ...
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Throughout the twentieth century, especially during wartime and the Cold War, intelligence agents routinely used the media to publish and broadcast material that would deceive external enemies, thwart domestic subversion or simply to change the way readers thought about fascism or communism. Today stories are chanelled to journalists in order to promote a news agenda deemed favourable to MI5, MI6 or to the CIA, or to 'spin' the coverage of key issues. Investigative reporters often have a more adversarial relationship with the security services, seeing them as over-mighty agents of the state who should be subjected to forensic scrutiny of what they get up too - allegedly for the public good. The furore over 'rendition' of terrorist suspects by the CIA and the complicity of British agencies in this process is but one example of journalists uncovering practices that the intelligence community would rather have kept secret. The contributors to this book, drawn from former intelligence officers, the media and academia, explore this intriguing and often fraught contest, shedding light on many hitherto unknown aspects of the intriguing and symbiotic relationship between the 'second oldest profession' and the print and broadcast media. Speaking from the perspective of the journalist are Chapman Pincher and Gordon Corera (Security Editor, BBC), whose essays trace the evolving relationship between news media outlets and the government, especially with regards to advances in technology. Reporting from the perspective of the political institution are Sir David Omand, Nick Wilkinson, Michael Goodman, and Anthony Campbell, who explain governmental oversight of intelligence agencies, the operation of clandestine information units, and the laws that govern the control of information. Richard Aldrich investigates the exploitation of the globalized media by intelligence agencies; Scott Lucas and Steve Hewitt tackle the CIA's use of open sources for intelligence purposes; and, Wyn Bowen examines the real-world use of open source intelligence in rolling back Libya's nuclear program. Robert Dover and Pierre Lethier explore the depiction of intelligence in popular culture, a practice that helped create rendition and facilitate torture, and condition our responses to both. In the final essay, Patrick Porter focuses on cultural representations of the war on terror.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 263 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009014170 Type of material Book Main title Spinning intelligence: why intelligence needs the media, why the media needs intelligence / editors, Robert Dover and Michael S. Goodman. Published/Created New York: Columbia University Press, c2009. Description vii, 263 p.; 23 cm. ISBN 9780231701143 (alk. paper) 0231701144 (alk. paper) LC classification PN4735. S67 2009 Related names Dover, Robert, 1977-Goodman, Michael S. Contents Regulation by revelation? Integelligence, the media and transpareny / Richard J. Aldrich--Intelligence secrets and media spotlights: balancing illumination and dark corners / David Omand--Terrorism and the media: information war / Gordon Corera--Good anthropology, bad history: America's cultural turn in the war on terror / Patrick Porter--Open source intelligence and nuclear safeguards / Wyn Q. Bowen--All the secrets that are fit to print? The media and US intelligence agencies before and after 9/11 / Steve Hewitt and Scott Lucas--British intelligence and the British broadcasting corporation: a snapshot of a happy marriage / Michael S. Goodman--Balancing national security and the media: the D-Notice committee / Nicholas Wilkinson--Reflections on a lifetime of reporting on intelligence affairs / Chapman Pincher--Bedmates or sparring partners? Canadian perspectives on the media-intelligence relationship in the new propaganda age / Tony Campbell--The clandestine clapperboard: Alfred Hitchcock's tales of the Cold War / Pierre Lethier--From Vauxhall Cross with love: intelligence in popular culture / Robert Dover. LC Subjects Government and the press. Espionage. Spies in mass media. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 070.4/4932712 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn318534292
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