[csaa-forum] FW: Martin Woollacott seminar

[Sue Turnbull]

SEMINAR 
 
 ŒThe Journalist and the Moralist¹
 
 Guest Speaker:
 
 Martin Woollacott 
 
2 p.m. Thursday 13th January 2005
 
Seminar Hall
 (Institute for Advanced Study)
(Melways Map 573 F2)
 
 
Western journalists are emerging more and more as arbiters of the morality
of the actions of their governments.  This is especially the case in the
international sphere, with reporters involved on the ground in major crises,
from Vietnam to Iraq, playing a role, sometimes a leading role, in setting
the terms of the moral debate.  Martin Woollacott will argue that the press
corps following such stories often ends by projecting a common moral line,
in spite of its national and political diversity.  He will also argue that
it is as a result usually in favour of intervention, including military
intervention, as the crises of the nineties in the Balkans and Africa
showed, although Iraq has now put a question mark over such activism.  The
aim is to stimulate discussion on the role of journalists in international
crises.

  
Martin Woollacott is a former foreign editor of The Guardian, having
previously been a correspondent for that paper in Asia and the Middle East.
He was until recently the main commentator on international affairs in The
Guardian, to which he continues to contribute.  He is here in Melbourne as
an IAS Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University,
working on a project with the help of members of the Media Studies
Department. 
  
Seminar Convener: 
Julia Anderson ­ phone:  9479 3461 or email:  j.anderson at latrobe.edu.au
 
 
Rob Burgess
Associate Lecturer in Journalism
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