Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (603 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312371195 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Amazon Customer said Gets better and better as you read. I want to just add to the 5 star reviews. As a moderate I was pleasantly surprised by how balanced this book was. The author clearly struggled with his feelings and never acted superior. As you get deeper into the book it becomes as riveting as any book I can recall. Very highly recommended.. Spartan said Martin Fletcher's Amazing "BREAKING NEWS"!. Hanging my boots up last year after my final trip to Afghanistan was one of the hardest decisions I've ever had to make in my life. It was done at the insistence of my daughter and my knees. I finally had to realize that I could be a liability to those around me in a war zone. With that in mind, I was quite intrigued when friends contacted me and as. Great stories of History-Making news from an excellent reporter Pat Nava I couldn't put this book down, and read it in one day. Martin Fletcher takes you where most reporters won't go, or can't go. You'll read of the intense competition between the networks, and what ranks as "go" or "no-go" story; which amounts to the number of people dying or killed as being newsworthy.Stories of fellow journalists who are killed and w
At age 25, Fletcher grew bored with his BBC desk job and grabbed a position as a cameraman with a video news agency. All rights reserved. Fletcher's engagement with his own family's suffering in the Holocaust adds complexity to a narrative that is both fast-paced and moving. . Five days after he arrived in Israel for his second assignment, Egypt and Syria invaded. From Publishers Weekly Currently NBC news bureau chief in Tel Aviv, Fletcher offers a vivid account of his 30-year career as a war correspondent in the hot spots of the globe. With no experience under fire, Fletcher found himself dodging bullets on the front lines—and loved it. (Mar.)Copyright &cop
During three decades covering wars, revolutions, and natural disasters, Martin Fletcher worked his way from news agency cameraman to Tel Aviv bureau chief for NBC News, facing down his own fears while facing up to mass killers, warlords, and murderers. Can you eat the food of a warlord who stole it from the starving? Do you listen politely to a terrorist threatening to blow up your children? Do you ask the tough questions of a Khmer Rouge killer, knowing he is your only ticket out of the Cambodian jungle?. These extraordinary, real-life adventure stories, told with humor and elegance, describe Fletcher's growth from clueless adventurer to grizzled veteran of the world's trouble spots
One of the most highly respected correspondents in television news, MARTIN FLETCHER, NBC News' Tel Aviv bureau chief and correspondent, has covered every event of consequence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for the last thirty years. He still reports from all the world's hot spots, while carrying out special assignments for NBC News.. Fletcher has