Following the Balibo massacre’s whale

Pacific Journalism Review

关键词: geopolitics;    Timor-Leste;    television;    war correspondence;    war correspondents;    war crimes;   

DOI  :  10.24135/pjr.v15i2.993

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Early on in Tony Maniaty’s Shooting Balibo we come across Herman Melville, Michelangelo Antonioni and John Dos Passos. We quickly get the message that this is as much a journey of the imagination as it is a travelogue, memoir or investigation. Maniaty tells us that when he went to East Timor as an ABC reporter in 1975, just before the ill-fated journalists, his travel reading was Melville’s Moby Dick. Here we get a sense of the young journalist’s ambition, his questing commitment to follow the story, just as Ahab follows his whale.

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