Cuando España llama a rebato. Militares y periodistas en Perejil

Abstract

The military conflict between Spain and Morocco because Perejil (Parsley) island showed that neither the military men nor the journalists were prepared to treat from a communication and information approach such a military crisis in which direct territorial national interests were challenged. In this sense, there was a deep difference between what happened in Perejil and those other multinational military operations in which the Spanish Armed Forces have been involved during the last decade, the very ones that have been reported from the ground by the Spanish journalists. For both the military and newsmen this failure is the consequence of the way in which they have dealt with the external and internal factors regarding to the performance of a war correspondent, from whose point of view this paper has been written. Such a conclusion is the result of field work and library research.