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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
Brian Williams was live from Tel Aviv on Nightly News tonight, with other NBC reporters live in Haifa, etc. There was dramatic footage in a Richard Engle piece of a rocket heading in the direction of where they were doing their "standups," which was intercepted at the last moment and fell harmlessly into a field.
With all of the high profile and lesser known journalists killed in the conflicts in that part of the world you have to wonder about the wisdom of that kind of coverage -- but also pay tribute to the bravery of the reporters and crews standing in harms way.
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In J school we had quite a few foreign correspondents come in to speak to us, and the message was always the same: it's an exciting job, but many times you're putting your life in danger. Because of the mentality of those correspondents (and the chiefs of the foreign bureaus), I think it would take heavier casualties to change the mindset.