Liberal ethics and the spectacle of war

Lilie Chouliaraki

pp. 136-158

in: Nick Couldry, Mirca Madianou, Amit Pinchevski (eds), Ethics of media, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Abstract

Those young men who had set out in a spirit of adventure went back to Fleet Street with a queer look in their eyes, unable to write the things they had seen … Because there was no code of words which would convey the picture of that wild agony of peoples, that smashing of all civilised laws, to men and women who still thought of war in terms of heroic pageantry…