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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I’m not sure how reflective Civil War’s depiction of how embedded press actually operates in the battlefield . I took their closeness in the battle scenes as pretty satirical, especially the final scenes. I felt the whole film’s messaging was poking fun at our over fixation on the media? I dont imagine infantry ever physically encouraging media personnel into the frontline as they did in the film…
Not being exactly at the front of the action is still dangerous as hell though, as mentioned, real war journalists die regularly.
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