A fascinating story in today’s Hollywood Reporter:
| “‘There’s no respect for the neutrality of journalists. I went into wars waving my press card, and I could go from one side of the lines to the other, and now it’s extremely difficult to do that. We’re often targeted,’ said Allen Pizzey, a CBS News correspondent who has covered wars since Angola in 1975. It’s that targeting that Pizzey and other foreign correspondents — and their network bosses — say has made it even more difficult to cover wars and to ask correspondents, their crews and others who work with them to risk making the ultimate sacrifice.” |
Pizzey never expected to travel with security guards. “And when I first worked with them in Baghdad, I found it extremely uncomfortable, extremely difficult,” he said. “Now I wouldn’t go there without them. It’s just a different world.” Here’s the full story…
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