ba's review of Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It by Columbia Journalism Review
This book began as an article in the Columbia Journalism Review and was later expanded to book form. They interviewed 50 journalists, photographers and translators who had covered the war in Iraq through the end of 2006. The subjects are asked about their experience covering the war, and how that changed from the initial invasion through the heat of the so-called insurgency. What emerges is a glimpse of the working lives of reporters, but more so, an on-the-ground view of the war itself, perhaps more than you would get reading the resulting articles in the press.
I highly recommend this book. It's fascinating to learn the insanely dangerous conditions under which these journalists are working, and also to glimpse the way in which these committed idealists have to constantly re-examine their methods from a moral , practical and survival standpoint to insure that they're living up to the high standards of their profession.
On a lighter note, one of the interviewees is named Larr...more
I highly recommend this book. It's fascinating to learn the insanely dangerous conditions under which these journalists are working, and also to glimpse the way in which these committed idealists have to constantly re-examine their methods from a moral , practical and survival standpoint to insure that they're living up to the high standards of their profession.
On a lighter note, one of the interviewees is named Larr...more
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