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>> 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

Willingness of two journalists to report the truth makes a powerful argument for war reporting. >> did you have a chance to talk to your dad how he felt about 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 the military establishment but how he himself was completely at peace with his conscience. >> oliver: more deadlines on the battle field when "war stories" continues.

>> with the u.n. preparing to >> news of disaster didn't make leave their last compound marie it immediately into the made her stand. newspapers. >> i am afraid at that point i >> this was not war reporting to the public. don't work for the sunday times. i had the only line of technically breech of the communication. i am going to talk to everybody censorship rules but it was only and are you still a journalist. really reporting to the what mattered more to me if the political masses. u.n. evacuated these women and >> chief murdock's eyewitness children were going to die. account had a profoun...

Ok, guys-- what's next ? >> in the wake of the vietnam war everything changed. >> the military said later on never before in the history of war reporting has a group of correspondents by constant distortion and lies turned upon their own country army and cost them the war.

The telegraph. people could read about what happened yesterday rather than what happened two weeks ago. newspapers realized there was an enormous hunger out there. >> war cells. during the civil war 600 reporters converged on the carra karnage. they put 63 men in the field and spent nearly $1 million. those were 1860s dollars. matthew brady captured the agony of the civil war and sold pictures directly to an eager public starved for information. photographs didn't become a regular fixture in newspapers until after 1880. but when they did, front page photographs like this changed war reporting ...