![]() ![]() Then, once the fighting ends, there’s the matter of finding a new war, to keep making a living. There’s a shocking amount of bureaucracy: figuring out travel to the front, keeping on top of press-office restrictions, managing inevitable technical difficulties, arranging short-notice interviews with subjects (who sometimes require translators), competing with other correspondents. War reporters have to witness without intervening they must spin events, from the mundane to the unspeakable, into coherent narratives, with the goal of accurately conveying cause and effect - even if none can be discerned. THERE MAY BE no experience related to war as surreal or traumatic - aside from actual soldiering - as that of the war correspondent. ![]()
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