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Letter. >> to a large extent. >> oliver: news didnt make it immediately into the newspapers. >> this was not war reporting to the public. tectechnically it was a breachf the censorship rules. >> they printed it in the cabinet paper in britain. had a special meeting, the war cabinet which was held in the recall of general hamilton and an evacuation three months lated. >> oliver: the sons of new zee land and australlia suffered over 30,000 casualties on the peninsula. the battle took over 120,000 ...

>> doug: the reason for the explosion was the telegraph. people could read about what happened yesterday and newspapers realized there was an enormous hunger out there. >> war sells. during the civil war, 6 h hundred reporters converged on the carnage. one paper put 63 men in the field and spent almost a million dollars and those were 1860s dollars. matthew brady captured the agony of the civil war and sold his pictures directly to an eager public starved for information. photographs didnt becom...

Under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel t networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know what we were going to find. we wend to the valley which at the time was the most dangerous place in afg...

Killed. and the willingness of two journalists who report the truth makes a powerful argument for independent war reporting. >> have you had a chance to talk to your dad how he felt about bringing about a change, perhaps saving thousands of lives as a consequence of what he did. >> i remember i guess it was 30 years later after the event. he was telling me how he was still heavily criticized in britain by military establishment, how he himself was a completely at peace with his conscience. >> ol...

Bin laden compound is being demolished. thank you so much. >> jamie: and if a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million. and on todays episode of "war stories with oliver north," an in depth look into the history of war reporting and the dangers our crews face as the witnesses on the front line and a tribute to marie colvin, a war correspondent, right here at three oclock on fox news. >> fox news confirming that the u.s. military is planning new measures to stop any attempts ...

>> oliver: in the wake of the vietnam war everything changed. >> never before in the history of war reporting has a group of correspondents constant distortions and lies in reporting the car. >> the days of total access and free movements of journalists were gone. 1983, granada, journalists were bar frd the island until three days. panama, strict control by the military led to coverage some say it was an illusion of a bloodless battlefield. >> 1990, iraq invades kuwait. >> none of it appears -- ...

Working, french photographer ren nay off link and veteran american war correspondent marie colvin who reported for the british newspaper "the sunday times." in homs, colvin provided the bbc with some of the most vivid accounts of the brutality. hearing her now, is haunting just hours before her death. >> there are just shells, rockets coming in, just hitting any building. i have not seen one military target. theyre simply [ inaudible ]. and the wounded and dead i have seen, i would say about 80%...

Caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel t networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know what we were going to find. we wend to the valley which at the time was t...

Zones. caught on camera as they come under fire themselves. >> theyve been taking incoming rounds from at least two directions on these hills. >> war reporting is as old as war itself, and for journalists covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan its as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news richard engel t networks chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didnt know what we were going to find. we wend to the valley which at the tim...

His war reporting. the other key insight he brought back is about what were doing in afghanistan anyway. stanley mcchrystal was not just a celebrity general. his celebrity was based on how he embodied the militarys new way of doing things. do anything, be everything. never leave doctrine that has kind of a liberal elegance to it that tends to shut up its natural critics. as it justifies calls for tens if not hundreds of thousands ofs staying in places like afghanistan for decades. now 18 months ...