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P Although theY work for different They all think that their job is important'
k You're neat the front line of a battle' organizations, war reporters help each 'l don't like the danger at all,'saYS
Around you shells are exPloding'
Penny Marshall, 'but it's the only way to
.i=ff People are shooting from a other. 'As a war repolter,' saYS get an honesi repori. We aren't brave,
Michael Nicholson, 'You become
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,F#- house behind You' What are a member of a very exclusive because you don't really think allout the
Flin-: you doing there? You aren't
#h=4 club and you dePend il danger when You're in it, but
tr$ a soldier. You alen't even on each other.' One of \ .i: :tr: i you have to be calm.' For Kate
carrying a gun. You're
standing in front of a the most resPected Adie the danger isn't the
important thing. She describes
3ltr camera and You'te telling members of that club 'You're
-risf the TV viewers what is is SandY Gall. He's her job as a Privilege.
reportecl on several seeing history in the making"
,atn happening. she saYs.
conflicts including the
rnd Sandy Gall,
it's all in a daY's work for a respected reqofter Suez Crisis of 1956, But there are moments of
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war correspondent, and it can Vietnam, Afghanistan terror. Jerem}, Bowen again:
be very dangerous. ln the first two years and the Gulf War. SandY saYs' Kate Adie, 'Yes, when You're lying on the
of the conflict in former Yugoslavia, 28 dressed for action
t! tu 'We're all a bit mad, if not ground and bullets are flying
repolters and photographers were killed when we staft, then ceftainly past your ears, you think: "What the hell
:iltttl Hundreds more were injured, including by the end.' am I doing here? l'm not going to do this
the BBC's Martin Bell. What kind of
1ne again." But that feeling goes after a
people put themselves in danger to bring
. aen while and when the next war stafts,
pictures to our TV screens and stories to you'll be there.'
our newspapers? WhY do they do it?
cck 'None of us believes that we're going to
'l don't know whether we're macho or die,'adds Michael Nicholson. But he
ltila masochists,' saYS ITN's Michael always carries a lucky charm with him' lt
Nicholson.'l think it's every young was given to him by his wife for his first
.ets reporter's dream to be a foreign war. lt's a card which says, 'Take care of
correspondent that's where you find the yourself.' Does he ever think about
excitement. So when the f irst
iale dying? 'Oh, many times, and every time
opportunity comes, you take it even if it
iSO it happens you look to the sky and say to
is a war.' Jeremy Bowen from the BBC God, "lf you get me out of this, I promise
agrees. 'l don't think we like the danger'
-3n l but it gives you a ceftain thrill. After a Martin Bell with a film crew' l'll never do it again". You can almost
while other stories become a bit dull'' during the Gulf War hear God laughing, because You know
He doesn't believe You.'
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