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Compare and Contrast the way in which the media has handled the Falklands War and the Gulf War.
"You can win the battle but lose the war if you don't handle the story right."
General Colin Powell in a speech to the National Defence University, 1990.
Both the Gulf War and the Falklands War were extremely different not only in ....
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.... number when compared to the number that were present in the Gulf War. All the correspondents had to agree to censorship by the MoD at source (2). This censorship was made even more painful when the correspondents learned that no such censure would apply to stories written in Britain (3). This served to heighten tensions between the media and the military and showed that there was a mutual distrust between the two. The media reliance on the military was, as mentioned above, due to not only the location of the Islands but also due to the terrain and climate which made unsuitab ....
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