THE DEATH of OSAMA BIN LADEN: Global TV News and Journalistic Detachment
Reuters Institute Fellowship Paper University of Oxford THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN: Global TV News and Journalistic Detachment Richard Lawson Michaelmas Term 2011 Sponsor: BBC Acknowledgments I am grateful to my sponsor, the BBC, for giving me the opportunity to spend an extremely rewarding term in Oxford. Naturally all the views expressed in this paper are mine and mine alone. I would like to thank my supervisor James Painter at the Reuters Institute for his encouragement and inspiration, and David Levy and John Lloyd for their invaluable support throughout my time in Oxford. Many thanks to Sara Kalim, Alex Reid, Kate Hanneford-Smith, and Rebecca Edwards at the Institute for their help, patience, and good humour. I am greatly indebted to Professor Michael Traugott, Richard Sambrook, Dr Anne Geniets, Dr Colleen Murrell, Mel Bunce, Nina Bauer, Anthony Partington, and Dr Ben Irvine for their thoughts and suggestions. I would like to thank everyone who helped me at the BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera English – and, last not but least, my parents, for their love and support. About the author Richard Lawson is currently the BBC World Service producer in Washington. He has worked at the World Service since 2006 as a producer and editor on leading news programmes such as Newshour and World Update. He won a Sony award in 2008 for an investigative documentary about the corruption allegations surrounding Benazir Bhutto, and he has produced programmes from Islamabad, Brussels, Sofia, Paris, Rome, Dublin, and Tokyo. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 4 2. AN ETHIC OF DETACHMENT .............................................................................. 11 3.
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