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War reporting, then and now. (Film).
AT THE HEIGHT of the "All history is present history" controversy in the middle of the last century, American historian John Hexter commented that far from viewing the past in terms of current events, he interpreted current events in terms of the Puritan-Cavalier conflicts of seventeenth-century Britain. I feel much the same about the controversies over the war in Iraq. The "embedding" of reporters reminds me of Damien Parer, Chester Wilmot and Ernie Pyle. The United States' attempts to intimidate journalists into reporting the war their way echo for me Sir Thomas Blamey's clash with Chester Wilmot--but of course, even Blamey didn't lob a tank-shell in Wilmot's direction. ...
- DAMIEN PARER AND CHESTER WILMOT AT TOBRUK.
- Magazine article from: Quadrant McDONALD, NEIL July 1, 2000 700+ words
...the Anzacs. Scripted and narrated by Chester Wilmot and Damien Parer (for a sequence he...World War. The first of these was Chester Wilmot, author of Tobruk and The Struggle...the first time Parer had the help of Chester Wilmot. Here he could observe one of the...
- Neil McDonald. Chester Wilmot reports. Broadcasts that shaped World War...
- Magazine article from: Sabretache Alexander, Kristen December 1, 2004 700+ words
Neil McDonald. Chester Wilmot reports. Broadcasts that shaped World War II, ABC Books...appetite whetting is a good marketing ploy, for readers of Chester Wilmot Reports are waiting, perhaps not as desperately as listeners...
- Marking Anniversary of Palestine Hotel Attack, Media and Human Rights Groups...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 7, 2004 700+ words
...tomorrow's anniversary of the U.S. shelling of Baghdad's Palestine Hotel in which two journalists were killed, leading groups representing...well as the public. The April 8, 2003 tank attack on the Palestine Hotel, which was headquarters to 150 media staff, killed Taras...
- PALESTINE: HOTEL SECTOR IN GAZA REVIEWED.
- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database August 7, 2005 700+ words
According to Wafa news agency (August 5, 2005), the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) estimated the total number of hotels in the Gaza Strip at 15 hotels by the end of 2004. These hotels offer 481 rooms and 872 beds. The PCBS reported that 2,380 dwellers visited these hotels in 2004.
- Adapting to the truth of the story. (Film).(Second World War Australian...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant McDonald, Neil April 1, 2003 700+ words
...and Hal Colebatch's criticisms of Chester Wilmot's role in reporting the New Guinea...death for our soldiers--something Chester Wilmot knew only too well when he made his...of Valiant for Truth--A Life of Chester Wilmot. But it is an unwarranted slur on...
- Reporting the Papuan campaign. (Film).(Papuan battles of 1942-43)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant McDonald, Neil November 1, 2002 700+ words
...telling the story of Damien Parer, Chester Wilmot and Osmar White but also of the...It was here, too, that he met Chester Wilmot in a traffic jam during the Australians' attack on Tobruk. Chester Wilmot was a much more sophisticated...
- Telling the Kokoda story.
- Magazine article from: Quadrant McDonald, Neil October 1, 2005 700+ words
...campaign. Paull also used ABC broadcaster Chester Wilmot's unedited dispatches and when Retreat...for a stretcher. Never. Not once. Chester Wilmot's scripts for his broadcasts have...published until late last year when my Chester Wilmot Reports (ABC Books) included an extensive...
- VISIONS OF WAR.(war and Australia portrayed through film)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant MCDONALD, NEIL June 1, 2001 700+ words
...s photography of the same events. Similarly, placing Chester Wilmot's description of the fighting withdrawal to Eora Creek...his diaries, Damien remained unconvinced and when he and Chester Wilmot worked on The Sons of the Anzacs for the Australian War...