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[https://www.npr.org/2014/08/23/342430548/the-risks-and-rewards-of-reporting-in-a-war-zone by Scott Simon 23/8/14 npr] | [https://www.npr.org/2014/08/23/342430548/the-risks-and-rewards-of-reporting-in-a-war-zone by Scott Simon 23/8/14 npr] | ||
I'd just come back from Sarajevo or Kosovo, and described how the city had no trees, because they'd been chopped down for heat. How people had to eat grass because they had no food, and how artillery shells whistled and crashed all night, scorching the sky, and how a couple of times shots from snipers came close enough to our heads to sizzle in our ears as we raced through town to file our stories. | I'd just come back from Sarajevo or Kosovo, and described how the city had no trees, because they'd been chopped down for heat. How people had to eat grass because they had no food, and how artillery shells whistled and crashed all night, scorching the sky, and how a couple of times shots from snipers came close enough to our heads to sizzle in our ears as we raced through town to file our stories. | ||
=====REPORTING AMERICA AT WAR===== | |||
[https://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/ by PBS] | |||
In television's first comprehensive look at an extremely timely issue, Reporting America at War explores the role of American journalists in the pivotal conflicts of the 20th century and beyond. From San Juan Hill to the beaches of Normandy, from the jungles of Vietnam to the Persian Gulf, the three-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Ives tells the dramatic and often surprising stories of the reporters who witnessed and wrote the news from the battlefield. | |||
