... This issue has long been the burden of the media world, spanning over the past 150 years dating right back to 1854 in the Crimea and still continues today. John Pilger, one of today's most well respected war reporters, has witnessed many conflicts and has experienced first had the frustration suffered by a war correspondent. "The virulence of an unrecognised censorship often concealed behind false principles of objections, whose effect is to minimise and deny the culpability of Western power in acts of great violence and terrorism."1 William Howard Russel has been quoted as one of the first and the greatest war correspondents, and his coverage of the Crimean War in 1854 was a highly significant mile stone in the history of journalism. It marked the beginning of an organised effort to report a war to the civilian population by means of a civilian reporter, as appose to the prior method ...

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