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Friday, August 11, 2006
Worth a listen, for its sheer ordinariness, is this podcast with Michael Totten from the Israel-Lebanon border. The PJM reporter is at the same hotel as Shepherd Smith and John Roberts, but says without a good outside source for news, the fog of war obscures more up close than from a distance: out here, we have multiple sources, all he has is his own eyes and ears.
Totten makes it clear that while journalists might like to be heroes, the army would prefer they stay clear when the actual shooting's going, and further that it ain't so heroic to be there as a journalist, even if bombs and artillery are going off in the area, when you put yourself next to the waitress waiting tables so folks can get a pizza, war or no war, because that's where she lives and how she pays her bills.
posted by gbarto at 11:33 PM
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