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...work of journalists in the war zones, however, has had concrete and positive effects in the past. Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, appears in the film to describe the impact her work has on people back home. Of Yugoslavia, she said she found a situation in which, “Fifty years after World War II, all our governments said ‘never again,’ but it was happening again.” When, as a result of persistent coverage of the wars atrocities, the West intervened, “it took two weeks...
Every conflict has its signature medium. The Civil War gave birth to war photography. World War II provided radio's finest hour. The Vietnam War became the bright shining moment of network TV news. The Gulf War made CNN a worldwide brand...
...traffic to the top ten news web sites has increased by an average of nearly 100%. If you look at my partner CNN.com's traffic, they were averaging over 100 million page views a day - pretty good evidence that more people were following the war on CNN.com than on CNN...
...person - comes into my office, they always remark on the television next to my desk. But everyone I know in the media business has a TV in his or her office - so it's easy to forget that this is an anomaly for most Americans. They can't watch CNN during the day even if they want...
...print and television reporters being deployed to cover the war against terrorism, employers are eager to prepare them properly. "To send a journalist who has not been trained in how to behave in these very dangerous parts of the world is complete folly," says Chris Cramer, president of cnn International, whose organization uses AKE, a U.K. company that offers courses similar to Centurion?s. Cramer should know. While working for the BBC in 1980, he was taken hostage at the Iranian embassy in London. "I can tell you that the real thing is not unlike the hostage simulation these courses...