Bobby Ghosh Quotes

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.

I don't think journalism changes. It's about digging into stories and telling them well. The basic tenets of great reporting stay the same while things around it change. Technology has made reporting easier, but it has also caused job loss. Social media has increased discussion around topics, but it has its own challenges at times.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high the settings inevitably provide. But this one-dimensional explanation leaves out the core of the story, which is that reporters go to these places because they feel the tug of responsibility.

I'm a journalist; I love doing interviews, and I hope that will continue.

I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.

In Iraq, embedding allows us to put reporters in situations that would otherwise be too dangerous for them.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

I've always loved shows like '48 Hours' and 'Dateline,' and I've always been passionate about getting to the truth, and journalism.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.

Reporters do decide what is news, but they don't invent it, even if they sometimes become part of the story by risking their lives in a danger zone, as in the case of ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt.