No News at All

R. Michael Schiffer and Micheal F. Rinzler' article No News is No News suggests the governmental restrictions of the media during wartime has a counterproductive outcome. Schiffer and Rinzler argue that the governmental restrictions of the media during the Gulf War of the nineties, "amount to censorship". Although the restrictions were implemented to protect National security they in turn prevented adequate coverage of the war and led to distortions of the little information released. Having little information to report on, "The media themselves have become the story." The act of news reporting on location overseas became a spectacle and created a form of entertainment rather than a source of information.