Coverage Quote by Amy Goodman

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are…

— Bruce Jackson

“Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

— Joseph Goebbels

I'm not a war reporter.

— Matthew Heineman

Mainstream news covers war and gets everything wrong. I'd rather learn what's happening from soldiers with combat experience. It's like a former NFL player…

— Brandon Webb

“Military life and culture seem to be foreign territory for many of the people who write for national magazines and newspapers today. Every time…

— Marcus Luttrell

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of…

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

War reporters are often seen as a wild bunch of thrill-seekers who wade into danger zones simply for the sake of the adrenalin high…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“Presidents and Congress expect senior military leaders to provide their personal and professional military opinions candidly and honestly. There is no requirement for them…

— Robert M. Gates

There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

— Masha Gessen

I will say that the difference was that when you're an Army journalist, as opposed to a civilian correspondent covering the military, you're very…

— Clarence Page

“One of the great myths about war is that there is a ground zero, a center stage, where the terrible forces unleashed by it…

— John Hockenberry