14 December 2010
Media7 looks at the reporting of the Afghanistan conflict through the eyes of two presenters at the Pacific Media Centre's Media, Investigative Journalism and Technology (MIJT) conference at AUT University on December 4/5, 2010.
Independent security analyst Dr Paul Buchanan talks to Media7 presenter Russell Brown about his paper "Facilitated news as control of information flows: The origins and rationale for 'embedded' journalism".
Independent journalist Jon Stephenson, who presented on "How the was was spun: the media, the NZ Defence Force and Afghanistan", debates war coverage with New Zealand Herald columnist Garth George.