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Letter. >> to a large extent. >> oliver: news didn't 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 lives. strict censorship meant little was reported at the time. 65 million men were called to arms....

>> 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 didn't become a regular fixture in newspapers until after 1880. but when they did, front page photographs like ...

Under fire themselves. >> they've 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 it's as dangerous as ever. in 2008, nbc news' richard engel t network's chief foreign correspondent, heads to afghanistan to report the story of soldiers based at restrepo. >> we didn't know what we were going to find. we wend to the valley which at the time was the most dangerous place in afghanistan. so we knew we would see action, we would see combat. >> engel and his crew, producer ...

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. >> oliver: more deadlines in the battlefield when war stories continue. i wouldn't do that. pay the check...

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 today's 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 o'clock on fox news. >> fox news confirming that the u.s. military is planning new measures to stop any attempts by iran to close the strait of hormuz. iran has threatened to shut down the strategic waterway whi...