An Analysis of News from the Korean War and the Irish Troubles

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An analysis of "Everybody get down, here we go" by Marguerite Higgins Hall and Death on the Rock in regard to the portrayal of ‘on-going' conflicts in Western media.

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[...] Bibliography: PublicEnquiry. ( April). Death on the Rock, SAS execute IRA cell in Gibraltar, Thames Television (1988) [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MBqTw2vl0&t=233s The Museum of Broadcast Communications: Encyclopaedia of Television. (2018). Death on the Rock: British Investigative Documentary. Retrieved 5 March from www.museum.tv/eotv/deathonthe.htm [HYPERLINK: http://www.museum.tv/eotv/deathonthe.htm] The Pulitzer Prizes. [...]

[...] Irrespective of the date and stance of each of these war reports, there are parallels between the two which are worthwhile mentioning. Most crucially, it might be interpreted that there is a connection between both reports in endeavouring to convey a level of sympathy for their respective `sides' in each conflict. As much can be determined from Higgins Hall's article through examination of the statements: turned and saw that the men around me had expressions contorted with anxiety" and "enemy bullets caught a good many in the semi-darkness" (The Pulitzer Prizes, 2018). [...]

[...] (2018) In addition to this, both war reports include testimony from seasoned military personnel, such as Lieutenant Colonel George Styles and Lieutenant R. J. Schening, in order to avoid over-criticism of the armed forces and applies such self-censorship for aforementioned motives, such as Higgins Hall being embedded in the military whereas Thames Television and ITV wished to avoid consequences on a wider political scale. In conclusion, although there exists a sufficient span of time between these two war reports, a span of thirty-eight years in fact, and they both express alternate perspectives with regards to the their respective conflicts, they both aim to provide a balanced report of events and display a distinct degree of self-censorship. [...]

[...] An analysis of "Everybody get down, here we go" by Marguerite Higgins Hall and Death on the Rock in regard to the portrayal of `on-going' conflicts in Western media. Two of the many conflicts which marred the twentieth century, and which have yet to entirely cease, are the Korean War (1950-1953) and the Irish Troubles (1968-1998), both of which were widely reported on despite one never being cloaked with the dreaded label of `war'. This essay will thus distinguish how "Everybody get down, here we go" by Marguerite Higgins Hall and Death on the Rock differ and correspond as a means of elucidating how Western media represented conflicts which, to this day, are still on-going. [...]

[...] (2018). Marguerite Higgins hits `Red Beach'. [...]