He was thus, one could say, the first to scrupulously document a war, a sort of "historian of the immediate", according to the expression dear to Jean Lacouture. The invention of the war correspondent William Howard Russell 2000 years later, this same question of the truth of the war story has continued to arise with the birth of mass information in the 19th century. A major political issue, war was now "reported" by people whose job it was, even if it was still being defined.
The following story is from this founding point of view... It was in Mexico poland phone number library in 1848 that the precursors of reporting in conflict zones appeared. At the time, the United States annexed territories there and "for the first time a nation at war had to take into account public opinion and the new power of the press that helped shape it" underlines Adrien Jaulmes, in his formidable work "Raconter la guerre". Because this time, special envoys, often reporters and combatants, were present in the theater of operations.
And they wrote, they published, they were read, even if their status was still very ambiguous at the time. The title of war correspondent in the full sense of the term, with the independence that this implies with regard to the army that one accompanies, goes back in 1854 to William Howard Russell. The circumstances that will make him famous, resonate with the current period. The story takes place in Crimea. It opposes Russia to a coalition that brings together the United Kingdom, France, and the Ottoman Empire.
How to Incorporate Storytelling Into Funnels
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