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The Role of War Correspondents Explained

The document discusses the role and challenges of war correspondents. It notes that both sides in a war claim they are fighting against evil. War limits soldiers' physical and emotional experiences. War correspondents should remain objective and not take sides, instead clearly expressing information for those receiving the news. However, history has often portrayed war in a glorified way through literature and art. Now, media organizations are less likely to send reporters into dangerous areas due to costs. A war correspondent's role is to report on people and for people with a human perspective, though maintaining principles can be difficult.

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The Role of War Correspondents Explained

The document discusses the role and challenges of war correspondents. It notes that both sides in a war claim they are fighting against evil. War limits soldiers' physical and emotional experiences. War correspondents should remain objective and not take sides, instead clearly expressing information for those receiving the news. However, history has often portrayed war in a glorified way through literature and art. Now, media organizations are less likely to send reporters into dangerous areas due to costs. A war correspondent's role is to report on people and for people with a human perspective, though maintaining principles can be difficult.

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War Correspondent, about and for people – thoughts

It is truly difficult or even impossible to answer the question why the war exists.
Throughout the war, both sides claim that they are fighting against the evil. The war is seen as
with a limited experience and it weaknesses not only the human bodies but also the whole
emotional universe of the soldiers. The war correspondent’s attitude should be objective and
not to be on someone’s side, he neither has to condemn the soldiers nor to promote the
pacifism. He should express himself clearly and understandable for those who are receiving
the news. However, it is a frequent way throughout the history to be found in the literature
and art through which man could show the greatness of the war, hoping that he would better
learn from the past mistakes. Nowadays, there is this endless eager to have exclusive
information that the mass media wouldn’t send their reporters on the field in order not to
spend too much. The war correspondent’s news is those of a man, about people and fro
people, with a human attitude, and his principles are difficult to stand on. The journalist needs
ethic, principles, and those things which are learnt from an editorial office.
I definitely think anyone could be a reporter, but not anyone could be a journalist.
Keywords: war, war correspondent, field operation, rules, war prisoners.

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