Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tim Atherton wrote: > It really was a very compelling programme. It wasn't just talking heads and > reminiscences, but also footage of the various types of journalists doing > their work during the conflict - one of the most compelling sections was > John Simpson, a veteran 30 year correspondent from the BBC - travelling > independently with the Kurds, he was tagging along with a US Special > Forces/Kurdish convoy in N Iraq. The Special Forces call in a strike on a > target ahead of them and then gets accidentally bombed themselves by US > Forces instead. Simpson keeps reporting (at one point he brushes off a US > soldier who he thinks is trying to stop him, but is in fact offering first > aid). His assistant/translator has lost both his legs and been killed and > his cameraman keeps filming despite damage an injury to his left eye, which > is a mass of blood at this point - his whole head and face bloody (from the > camera's eye view you see the cameraman wiping his own blood from the front > of the lens). These were not people who where here to kowtow to someone > else's propaganda - they were going to tell the story that was in front of > them. That Simpson episode was indeed truly compelling TV. I saw it on the BBC on the day it happened. Nathan - -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl Mobile: +31 630 868 671 Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html