Robert Hooper on Rebuilding Iraqi Media
Rebuilding Iraqi Media: Lessons from the Muslim World
04/13/2011
Robert A. Hooper,
Journal of Media Education
"If we're attacked, hit the floor immediately and feel yourself for wet spots. If you feel a wet spot, call out for a medic--you're wounded! If I don't answer, I'm unconscious or dead. In that case, this is the medical kit. Here are the tourniquets and the morphine kits--if you're in pain, inject the morphine yourself and don't panic. Wait for a rescue vehicle and stay down because we could take fire from any direction. You got that?" I got it. I was not in Kansas anymore-- or even Kuala Lumpur. I was in Iraq.
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Professor Robert Hooper is an award-winning television producer and international educator whose research examines the role of media in interethnic conflict resolution, terrorism, environmental policy, and human rights. Hooper can provide commentary on the role of media in fragile states, including the use of domestic television to strengthen democratic institutions, promote national unity, protect the environment and respond to terrorism and ethnic conflict in the Asia-Pacific region.
