War Reporting

 War Reporting 

                            Modern day war reporting originally started during the Civil War, where journalists would go out and record the events of conflicts and events that are happening in war. During the civil war specifically there was a group who was born from that conflict called the bohemian brigade. Their origins came from a tavern, their name was given to them mainly because of their bohemian lifestyle, they usually roamed around reporting on battles such as Gettysburg, to the trenches of Petersburg. 

Before all of the technologies we have today, television, radios, cameras, and video, News was spread through technologies like the telegraph. developed by Samuel Morse in the 1830's it used morse code to deliver these messages through miles of underground connected wires from battlefield to news organizations. Railroads were also a pivotal tool and had been far more developed than the telegraph. 

During the Civil War, War reporters were in very high demand; the Bohemian brigade was known for their first hand reporting during the civil war. They brought a majority of news directly from the trenches, where even some reporters would unfortunately lose their lives attempting to get accurate news back  from many major battles to their outlets.  however a lot of their reports were known to be falsified and not always necessarily true. The Bohemian Brigade was known for creating fabricated tales from the frontlines and running with them leading many readers believing falsities and lies. They have records of telling half truths of casualties and battlefield results in order to make events seem less catastrophic.

Media coverage of the Gulf War

Today's War reporting looks a lot different from the 1860s. Take events like the gulf war 1990-1991. The Gulf War was the first 24/7 live televised war to be recorded. It streamed on CNN and was dominated by the company. Top reporters like Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett, and John Holliman broadcast live from Baghdad Iraq during the war inside a news room. These reporters sometimes provided censored frontline imagery of the war.