How do war journalist manage to be in the middle of a conflict without being killed?

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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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They do get killed pretty often it’s a very dangerous job.

The fighting parties will tell you they don’t intentionally target them, but there is no way to confirm that.

If they do hit them they will tell you they either mistook them for a valid target or they didn’t know they were there or it was an accident.

And given the nature of war all these options are definitely possible so it’s practically impossible to prove they intentionally targeted them.

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