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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:53:00

>> oliver: is it wrong for a report forefeel an affection for the troops? >> of course, it is not wrong. if you are an american covering a war and americans fighting and america's future is at stake, of course, you are on that side. now, you have got to tell the truth. >> we were objective in that we reported the good along with the bad that our unit had encountered. we also talked about their mistakes. friendly fire incidents. the killing of innocent civilians. i also said that we were biased. definitely biased in that we wanted the united states to win. >> i knew this is going to go badly wrong when i landed on an empty plane and the airport is absolutely crushed of people fighting their way on to the plane. >> oliver: marie colvin went to indonesia to cover a contentious election in indonesia.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:38:00

people? >> by the u.s. helicopter. >> did you take a vacation. in. >> no, two weeks and then i get out and i want to go back and take pictures right away. that is why my office said you are crazy. >> oliver: in 1972 nick took one of war fare's most shocking photographs. meet the little girl in the picture, next on "war stories." s

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:49:00

>> oliver: in the wake of vietnam war everything changed. >> the military man said later on never before in the history of war reporting has a group of correspondents by constant distortion and lies and emphasis centered upon their own country's army. >> oliver: the days of total access and free movement for journalists were gone. 1983 grenada. journalists are barred from the island until three days after the invasion. 1990, iraq invades kuwait. >> loot of it appears like a video game. you see air strikes and you see cruise missiles taking off and

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:36:00

documenting wars is easy to overlook. much of the film you see of wars past was shot by troops, not independent journalists. >> dominating the main highway to the north. >> one of the films was a great thing from world war ii and there is a scene where a guy gets up and throws a hand grenade and ducks down again which is a good plan and the photographer stays up and we were all like so that is the plan. >> oliver: jensen spent 15 months in the bush recaptured the terror and the mundane of a soldier's life in vietnam. but being in uniform didn't rob him of a journalist's curiosity or the willingness to bend the rules in search of the truth. >> we had heard that there was some bad stuff going on at a fire support base called rip cord and we headed up north and the routine was you would have to check in with the public information office and they just said they didn't care, nobody was being allowed out to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:55:00

saving those lives marie found herself trying to save her own. >> it was in april of 2001 to be exact. and i had gone to northern sri lanka which is essentially no journalist had been allowed for six years. >> oliver: sri lanka has been racked by civil war for more than 20 years as forces fight for independence. >> brutal on both sides and it was getting back out that i was injured. so as we were crossing the field dark of night they just opened fire. flares go up, and that is just terrifying. i just hit the ground. >> oliver: in the dark of night marie heard soldiers moving toward her. >> i was uninjured until i yelled journalist at which point they launched a grenade which hit about four feet from me. remember this is just -- i

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:25:00

>> oliver: the words and images came at a price. the casualty rate for photographers and correspondents was four times greater than the military in general. >> i didn't want to die but on the other hand you have to be in a certain place to get the story. >> all of a sudden mortars start to come in. you got mad as hell, not that you would get killed but they were interfering with your writing. >> oliver: a marine corps correspondent he was one of thousands uniformed reporters, photographers and cameramen. >> how many days from the day you would write the story would it appear in the paper. >> a week. went ap, up, ips. we were the only ones on the spot doing the story. >> oliver: consider them the early embeds injuries the world began to see the sacrifices being made for their freedom. in september of '43 this

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:35:00

show how you tough america was being on communism. you went out there as a correspondent and you were allowed to go where you wanted to. >> a lot of the reporting from vietnam which was clearly one sided. we saw the horrors of it and so on but did not hear much of what was happening on the other side. >> oliver: at its peak over 600 journalists were covering vietnam. the military invested men and material to record the war. like christopher jensen. >> i was attending photo journalism courses and it occurred to me maybe what i ought to do it enlift in the army. if you enlisted it was three years but the mill tar arery would train you in a specialty that you requested. >> oliver: jensen became one of 300,000 soldiers trained by the signal corps to shoot pictures. the military's role in

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:50:00

explosions and lights in the sky. >> oliver: in the wake of the first gulf war the military realized excluding the media might have been a mistake. a conference was called in veteran war correspondent joe galloway was there. >> and they had all the division commanders, marine, army on one side of the table and us on the other and those guys especially the army guys were just sitting there looking sick because they just fought this remarkable 100 hour campaign and won all these incredible tank battles in the desert and didn't have a single foot of film. not a picture. nada. >> i got that. >> in the second gulf war they decided the military decided that they wouldn't manage the media as such. they would incorporate the media. >> did you get it? got it? >> got it.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:23:00

>> oliver: december 1941. the surprise attack on pearl harbor by the japanese forced the united states into a two front war. in those early dark days allied victory was far from certain. >> i have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. >> his phrase. >> the truth had to be protected by a body guard of a thousand lies. he felt it was moreally okay to lie if necessary to win the war. a. >> oliver: in this war of national survivor truth in pictures was at times a casualty. hollywood jumped aboard, producing propaganda films. this account of the bombing of pearl harbor mixed real footage with actors cast as japanese

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120227:05:32:00

and raised in michigan. he was kidnapped almost six years ago when her left his base on a moto motorcycle to vt his iraqi wife in baghdad. now, back to "war stories" with oliver north. >> it looks as though it is practically on fire. >> july, 1944. when the troops at the beaches of guam marine corps correspondent ail venice joseffy was there behide them. >> american bombers going down on the back of a base. we can see the beach clearly now. they are very close now. what's the matter? hey, spread out. spread out. there's one marine lying on his back with blood pouring out of him into the water. >> carrying this heavy radio equipment describing minute by

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