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Article: Live from Baghdad: Gathering News at Ground Zero.
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- Journal of International Affairs
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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Robert Wiener New York: Doubleday, 1992 303 pp.
In 1911, Richard Harding Davis, the most celebrated American journalist of his day, wrote an article entitled, "The Passing of the War Correspondent," which looked back on his career. In it he mused: "The day [the journalist's] cable from Cuba to New York was in an hour relayed to Madrid, the war correspondent received his death sentence, and six years later the japanese buried him." The immediate causes of Davis's complaints were the impact of international telegraph communications during the Spanish-American War and the Japanese practice of barring American reporters from the front during the Russo-Japanese War of ...