The Boer War: The First Media War

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Timewatch
Season 16
Episode Number :4
Rate : Not Rated
RunTime :50 mins
Air Date :1997-03-18
Story : The Boer War of 1899-1902 saw correspondents and cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time. Diaries, memoirs, photographs and films form part of an examination of the media's role in a conflict that saw young journalists Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling and writer Edgar Wallace make their names.