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<p>In this collection of 14 articles recounting their personal stories, journalists describe how the truth became more important than their personal safety. In all cases they received information they knew to be dangerous, decided to publish it, and dealt with the consequences, which range widely in terms of the intensity of the violence against them. The motives for the suppression of the journalists were largely financial, such as in China's trying to protect the inflow of foreign investments, but include the political, when a few words of criticism of Zimbabwe's president led to a reporter's arrest and expulsion. Annotation &copy;2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>This hard-hitting collection shows that pressure and persecution are still inescapable aspects of a journalist's job description. Dadge (Casualty of War: The Bush Administration's Assault on a Free Press) gathers 14 mostly first-person stories from journalists on the obstacles and threats they have faced. Many of the reports concern underdeveloped countries-like Charles Arthur's account of the murder of Haitian radio journalist Jean Dominique, and Andrew Meldrum's portrait of Zimbabwe'

Author

David Dadge

Publisher

Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781591023050

Subjects

Political Science, Literary Fiction, Humanities