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Originally Posted by KSigkid
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.
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We often forget about the crews...
I saw an old friend at lunch today who is a former ABC and CBS engineer and did freelance work for all of the networks in war zones for a number of years. He said that the day rates for the networks have skyrocketed, but less people want to go, and that he was, "too old for that crap."
I also read this morning that ABC is sending Charlie Gibson to anchor from Israel.
Finally, I heard an interview with an embedded reporter with a Marine unit in Iraq telling some really dramatic stories about the conditions our armed forces are living in in some areas of the country, and about being on patrol, turning a courner in their humvee and everybody on the block "vanishing" into buildings, etc. -- and knowing they were likely to get hit because the insurgents sometimes warn the locals when they have an ambush or an IED set up.
Pretty riviting stuff.