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>> 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 -- it appears like a video game.

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. they're simply [ inaudible ]. and the wounded and dead i have seen, i would say about 80% civilians. it is shelling with impunity and merciless disregard for the civilians who simply canno...

Caught on camera as they come 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. >>...

Zones. caught on camera as they come 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 com...

His war reporting. the other key insight he brought back is about what we're doing in afghanistan anyway. stanley mcchrystal was not just a celebrity general. his celebrity was based on how he embodied the military's 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 after the runaway general confrontation, general stanley mcchrystal runs a consulting company and ...