In Praise Of War Correspondents

In Praise Of War Correspondents -- Timothy M. Phelps, L.A. Times

The deaths of Marie Colvin, Anthony Shadid and other journalists is tragic. But to pull back from war zones would leave untold the stories that must be chronicled.

Marie Colvin and I covered our first combat together in 1986, after the U.S. bombed Libya. She was 30, pretty, ambitious and talented. She soon had Col. Moammar Kadafi and his aides in her thrall and parlayed her many scoops for United Press International into a job as a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of London.

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My Comment: Another must read piece on the dangers of being war correspondent is from Jay Bushinsky at the Jerusalem Post .... The danger in being a foreign correspondent.