A new research topic: anyone of you know about any books/films about war correspondents? I have read 'Dispatches', and just ordered 'War reporting for cowards'. I watched 'Only the dead' (that was one docu worth a whole lot!). Any other resources you can recommend? Anything you want off your chest with regard to journalists? I'm all ears/eyes
"War" by Sebastian Junger (that's the book that goes with Restrepo), also "A breed of heroes" by Alan Judd which is a novel but has a lot of good stuff on the soldier/journo relationship When I was in the army the men used to say that the reason they were called "embeds" was that that was what you wanted to do with a bayonet after 5 minutes of listening to the posh boy shite.... officers were more diplomatic and would give them at least fifteen minutes in NI you got two sorts of journalists - those that thought the army could do no wrong , who were tiresome because they constantly talked hyperbole which didn't describe the dirty little conflict and those that thought the 'army of occupation' could do no right - they were tiresome for obvious reasons. In Kosovo we never saw a journalist out in the sticks - they were too busy hanging around brown nosing the brass (senior officers) and UN diplomats
