[Media-watch] Reporting the War - PBS/Frontline World - January 2005

[Julie-ann Davies]

Quite long, full text is available at URL for those interested.
Julie-ann
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http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iraq401/thestory.html

 Iraq - Reporting the War - January 2005
The days of a plane's gentle descent into the Baghdad airport are long gone. 
Ever since arriving planes became targets for Iraqi insurgents armed with 
rockets, planes bound for Baghdad do a corkscrew dive to the tarmac as 
passengers like FRONTLINE/World correspondent Nick Hughes white-knuckle 
their armrests.

"These days, the flight from Amman to Baghdad is pretty empty," Hughes says. 
"A few Iraqi businessmen, one or two security contractors, and a couple of 
fellow reporters."

Hughes, a veteran cameraman for the BBC, made his way to Baghdad to report 
on the enormous dangers that journalists face there every day.

At the Hamra, a hotel once bustling with journalists and now nearly 
deserted, Hughes runs into Scott Peterson, a photographer with Getty Images 
and a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor. Peterson has just returned 
to the Hamra after spending 30 days embedded with U.S. troops in Fallujah. 
Peterson shows off his flak jacket and the "kill number" written on his 
wrist that would be used to identify him if he were injured... more at URL.



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