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The journalist as a peacemonger
ROGER McKENZIE wishes all reporting from wars carried a clarion call for peace from journalists placing themselves firmly on the side of its victims rather than being stenographers for those who champion war
Martha Gellhorn with Ernest Hemingway and Chinese General Yu Hanmou, Commander-in-Chief of the 12th Army Group from 1938–44, in Chongqing, China, 1941
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HOW long can we keep scrolling past the decapitated bodies constantly appearing on our telephone screens?
We have the options of closing our eyes, or moving on to something more edifying like the picture of a cat, or simply turning off our phones altogether.
I don’t hold the view that seeing the real impact of war on our screens somehow desensitises us or makes us less caring.
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