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</FONT></B></SPAN></FONT><B><FONT COLOR="#808000"><FONT SIZE="7"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:36.0px'><I> Martin Woollacott <BR>
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<SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Arial">Western journalists are emerging more and more as arbiters of the morality of the actions of their governments. This is especially the case in the international sphere, with reporters involved on the ground in major crises, from Vietnam to Iraq, playing a role, sometimes a leading role, in setting the terms of the moral debate. Martin Woollacott will argue that the press corps following such stories often ends by projecting a common moral line, in spite of its national and political diversity. He will also argue that it is as a result usually in favour of intervention, including military intervention, as the crises of the nineties in the Balkans and Africa showed, although Iraq has now put a question mark over such activism. The aim is to stimulate discussion on the role of journalists in international crises.<BR>
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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Martin Woollacott</B> is a former foreign editor of The Guardian, having previously been a correspondent for that paper in Asia and the Middle East. He was until recently the main commentator on international affairs in The Guardian, to which he continues to contribute. He is here in Melbourne as an IAS Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, working on a project with the help of members of the Media Studies Department</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>.
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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Seminar Convener: <BR>
<B>Julia Anderson</B> – phone: 9479 3461 or email: j.anderson@latrobe.edu.au<BR>
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Associate Lecturer in Journalism<BR>
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