Danger Pay
Title | Danger Pay PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Spencer Mitchell |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0292777892 |
An engrossing memoir in which a photojournalist records both the precursors to today’s conflicts in the Middle East and her own deeply felt conviction that news coverage of the region actually increases the conflicts there. "You're going where?" Carol Spencer Mitchell's father demanded as she set off in 1984 to cover the Middle East as a photojournalist for Newsweek and other publications. In this intensely thoughtful memoir, Spencer Mitchell probes the motivations that impelled her—a single Jewish woman—to document the turmoil roiling the Arab world in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as how her experiences as a photojournalist compelled her to set aside her cameras and reexamine the way images are created, scenes are framed, and "real life" is packaged for specific news stories. In Danger Pay, Spencer Mitchell takes us on a harrowing journey to PLO military training camps for Palestinian children and to refugee camps in the Gaza Strip before, during, and after the first intifada. Through her eyes, we experience the media frenzy surrounding the 1985 hijackings of TWA Flight #847 and the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro. We meet Middle Eastern leaders, in particular Yasser Arafat and King Hussein of Jordan, with whom Spencer Mitchell developed close working relationships. And we witness Spencer Mitchell's growing conviction that the Western media's portrayal of conflicts in the Middle East actually helps to fuel those conflicts—a conviction that eventually, as she says, "shattered [her] career." Although the events that Spencer Mitchell records took place decades ago, their repercussions reverberate in the MIddle Eastern conflicts of today. Likewise, her concern about "the triumph of image over reality" takes on greater urgency as our knowledge of the world becomes ever more filtered by virtual media.
Imminent Danger Pay :.
Title | Imminent Danger Pay :. PDF eBook |
Author | John H. Pendleton |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Strengthen Management of Imminent Danger Pay & Combat Zone Tax Relief Benefits
Title | Military Personnel: Actions Needed to Strengthen Management of Imminent Danger Pay & Combat Zone Tax Relief Benefits PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781422309742 |
Imminent Danger Pay for Those Serving in the Persian Gulf
Title | Imminent Danger Pay for Those Serving in the Persian Gulf PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Military Personnel and Compensation Subcommittee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN |
Imminent Danger Pay
Title | Imminent Danger Pay PDF eBook |
Author | United States Government Accountability Office |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2018-05-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781718976542 |
Imminent Danger Pay: Actions Needed Regarding Pay Designations in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility
Imminent danger pay
Title | Imminent danger pay PDF eBook |
Author | John H. Pendleton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Soldiers |
ISBN |
An Examination of the Methodology for Awarding Imminent Danger Pay and Hostile Fire Pay
Title | An Examination of the Methodology for Awarding Imminent Danger Pay and Hostile Fire Pay PDF eBook |
Author | Beth J. Asch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-01-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781977403537 |
In this report, RAND researchers examine the Defense Department's methodology for awarding hostile fire pay and imminent danger pay and explore whether a different approach might be more effective.