Killing the messenger : journalists at risk in modern warfare / Herbert N. Foerstel ; foreword by Danny Schechter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [135]-154) and index.

Ch. 1. The dangers of reporting conventional war -- Ch. 2. Journalism and the new face of war -- Ch. 3. Personal stories of abduction, torture, and death -- Ch. 4. Why do they hate us? -- Ch. 5. Protecting journalists at a cost to newsgathering.

"Killing the Messenger reveals the dangerous new face of war and journalism. Covering armed conflicts has always been dangerous business, but in the past, press heroes like Ernie Pyle and Edward R. Murrow faced only the danger of random bullets or bombs. Today's war correspondent is actually in the cross hairs, a target of combatants on all sides of conflicts. In this book, correspondents describe the new dangers they face, and attempt to explain why they are targeted. Is it simply that modern combatants are more brutal than in the past, or has journalism changed, making correspondents players, rather than observers, in modern warfare? Extended interviews with correspondents who have been abducted and tortured during Middle East conflicts shed chilling light on this new face of war."--BOOK JACKET.