Best intentions Quote by Charles Edward Callwell

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Let us immediately establish the point. Our enemies know full well that news is an important weapon in modern warfare and they are unceasingly…

— Matthew Gordon

I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent'…

— Robert Fisk

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is…

— Oswald Spengler

By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field

— Mark Twain

Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

— Alan Huffman

“The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is…

— George Orwell

“It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

— Asne Seierstad

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

“There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which…

— George Washington

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