An edition of Live from Baghdad (1992)

Live from Baghdad

gathering news at ground zero

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An edition of Live from Baghdad (1992)

Live from Baghdad

gathering news at ground zero

1st ed.
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"On August 23, 1990, CNN executive producer Robert Wiener landed at Saddam International Airport. In tow were correspondent Jim Clancy, a camera crew, and enough equipment to fill seven taxis.".

"Wiener's job was to orchestrate the network's coverage from the Iraqi capital - a herculean task that involved everything from negotiating with difficult Iraqi officials to gathering news to lifting spirits (including those that came in bottles). All in a day's work for CNN's executive producer in Baghdad. But, in fact, nothing in Wiener's extraordinary career - not even stints in Vietnam or in Romania during the revolution - could prepare him for what journalists came to call "the Iraqi Mind-Fuck."".

"Live from Baghdad is the fast-paced story of Wiener's adventures in Iraq during the period of tense international maneuvering that would culminate in open war. By turns suspenseful, irreverent, and inspiring, it is also a no-holds-barred inside look at how the media covered a simmering crisis.".

"Every day of Wiener's five-month stay conforms that this assignment was his toughest. Baghdad's surprisingly modern facilities did little to mask the mentality of a Third World dictatorship ruled by a cult of personality. The country's besiegement, compounded by the cutthroat competition of aggressive Western news media, created daily pressures so intense that news crews at "ground zero" frequently resorted to late-night bashes where cross-dressing was not uncommon.".

"Within hours of the war erupting, virtually every journalist still in Baghdad prepared to leave. But CNN decided to remain. And when the Iraqi capital came under attack, correspondents Peter Arnett, Bernard Shaw, and John Holliman reported the news live to the world." "They pulled it off - a journalistic first: live coverage of the war, in real time, from behind enemy lines."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
303

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Cover of: Live from Baghdad
Live from Baghdad: Making Journalism History Behind the Lines
December 1, 2002, St. Martin's Griffin
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Cover of: Live from Baghdad
Live from Baghdad: gathering news at ground zero
1992, Doubleday
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.

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New York

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
070.4/499567043
Library of Congress
PN4888.T4 W548 1992

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiii, 303 p. :
Number of pages
303

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1547885M
Internet Archive
livefrombaghdadg00wien
ISBN 10
0385421656
LCCN
91027310
Library Thing
216706
Goodreads
2727604

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