War Reporting Quotes

“All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.”
― David Baldacci, The Christmas Train

“We broadcast from coast to coast every utterance of Hitler, but the German people are not permitted to know a word of what Roosevelt speaks.”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

“Coffee, ever since it became impossible to buy it in Germany, has assumed a weird importance in one's life.”
― William L. Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

“What is formed and framed through the technological grasp and circulation of the visual and discursive dimensions of war? This grasping and circulation is already an interpretive manoeuvre, a way of giving an account of whose life is a life, and whose life is effectively transformed into an instrument, a target, or a number, or is affected with only a trace remaining or none at all.”
― Judith Butler, Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?

“I was gripped with a sense of unreality that followed me through most of the war. Reality, I guess, is just what we are accustomed to ...”
― Marguerite Higgins, War in Korea: The Report of a Woman Combat Correspondent

“There's extreme violence, but there's a will to find who these people really are. And I think that's what's really inspiring about it.”
― James Foley