Following the Balibo massacre’s whale

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...

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Autor principal:	Marcus O'Donnell
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Publicado:	Asia Pacific Network 2009
Materias:	geopolitics Timor-Leste television war correspondence war correspondents war crimes Communication. Mass media P87-96 Journalism. The periodical press, etc. PN4699-5650
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d093e5352c244ab39bf2e040b2505f312021-12-02T10:18:46ZFollowing the Balibo massacre’s whale10.24135/pjr.v15i2.9931023-94992324-2035https://doaj.org/article/d093e5352c244ab39bf2e040b2505f312009-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/993https://doaj.org/toc/1023-9499https://doaj.org/toc/2324-2035 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. Marcus O'DonnellAsia Pacific NetworkarticlegeopoliticsTimor-Lestetelevisionwar correspondencewar correspondentswar crimesCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96Journalism. The periodical press, etc.PN4699-5650ENPacific Journalism Review, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2009)
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description	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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Following the Balibo massacre’s whale

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