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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  (War Reporting Quotes) Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments  (War Reporting Quotes) We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see  (War Reporting Quotes) For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges  (War Reporting Quotes) WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.  (War Reporting Quotes) Journalism took me around the world. I worked in London for ten years and reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, the troubles in Northern Ireland, and the first Gulf War.  (War Reporting Quotes) Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain  (War Reporting Quotes) Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance  (War Reporting Quotes) If we were in a similar circumstance in the future I would want to make sure that our reporting was at least as diverse as it was during this most recent war  (War Reporting Quotes) I’ve stopped war reporting. I realized that I’d answered all of my questions about war and about myself  (War Reporting Quotes) War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90’s as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like  (War Reporting Quotes)