I watched Civil War yesterday and even though I generally knew what their job is I was surprised that they were actually in the very middle of the fighting, tagging right behind the soldiers and taking pictures. Why does either side of the conflict just lets them be, especially the side that might be ‘in the wrong’, knowing that they would report on their atrocities?
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1. By not going near high value targets/the actual front line or attack missions to capture objectives
2. They do get killed. It happens frequently.
Fighting is not always the same. Some areas with intense battle are suicide to go into, while others are technically also front line and contested, but nobody is currently making big moves. Those are safer to report from and generally where war reporters will be.
It’s also bad PR to shoot journalists. They’re civilians and usually belong to an oganizations that will then write about it. But it’s not good protection, sometimes the opposite is true. Nobody can tell tales if there is nobody left to tell the tale.
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