ABSTRACT
Although war with Argentina had been a possibility since before 1976 (when the Callaghan Government first started again secretly talking to the Argentine Government about some form of shared Falklands responsibility), 147 there had been no detailed planning for conflict, and there was therefore no agreed Media strategy when the crisis started. At first the MoD was reluctant to allow correspondents to accompany the Task Force as it sailed south, but editors who had the ear of the Prime Minister persuaded her to allow this. There were some who felt that the generally reluctant attitude to the Media of the military derived from American experience in Vietnam, but, as this History has recorded, the corporate dislike of correspondents near the front line went back to Victorian times, for reasons of both security and administration.
