战争报道是媒介研究的一个重要论题 ,而中国正欠缺这方面的研究。本文作者是美国著名的传播学者 ,对这一课题进行过专门探讨。文章认为整体战争时代是一个全民总动员的时期 ,国家和公众站在完全一致的立场 ,此时国家对新闻的控制尚不严格。局部战争时期国家与公众关系出现较大分裂 ,媒介在这一过程中起了什么作用是研究者着力探讨的焦点 ,主要提出了主导与跟随作用两种意见。同时 ,这一时期政府和军队加强了对媒介的控制。哈林还在社会学意义上对战争时期媒介与舆论的互动、意见领袖的作用、记者在战争报道中的角色等问题作了探讨 ,并把战争纳入文化体系进行研究。 War reporting is an important topic of media research, and China is lacking in this aspect of research. The author of this article is a famous American communication scholar and has conducted a special discussion on this topic. The article holds that the era of overall war was a period of mobilization by all the people and that the state and the public stood completely identical position. At this time, the state’s control over news was not yet strict. During the period of local war, the relation between the state and the public was greatly split. What role the media played in this process was the focal point that the researchers focused on and mainly proposed the two opinions of leading and following. At the same time, the government and the military strengthened their control of the media during this period. In the sociological sense, Harlem also explored the interaction between media and public opinion during the war, the role of opinion leaders, the role of journalists in war coverage and other issues, and included the war in the cultural system.