George W. Bush Quotes

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'

I was born in '82 and there were these bizarre wars, explained through mass media in ways that made no sense. I remember watching the Gulf War through night vision. That was sold and propagated as a showbusiness moment for the news.

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

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

News reports don't look at the land that existed before a war and the land that exists after a war. Reporting on war is a snapshot in time.

I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

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.

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

Let's get one thing straight: I am not an adrenaline junkie. Just because you cover conflict doesn't mean you thrive on adrenaline. It means you have a purpose, and you feel it is very important for people back home to see what is happening on the front line, especially if we are sending American soldiers there.

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms.

The First Battle of Fallujah was called off in part because of the intensity of non-U.S. media coverage of civilian casualties from outlets like Al Jazeera.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

A good war televises well; a bad war televises poorly.

You have to pay attention to how a war appears on television these days, there’s no way around it.

Of all times in time of war the press should be free.

The Vietnam war was the first television war. You didn’t have to imagine it any more. You could see it.... Television changed the way war was covered forever.

The war in Afghanistan is underreported.

I began college during the Iraq War and initially wanted to be a foreign correspondent.

'Dispatches' is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century and the most brilliant treatment of war and men I have ever read.

The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.