MEMBER BLOG TAG: fear honesty
| Sunday, May 2, 2010 11:59AM | | | | War | Tags: journalism, war, neutrality, objectivity, embedded, platoon, Taliban, fear honesty, trust, skepticism. civilians
| | | The room was packed for this panel, people standing, etc. I had attended the New European Fiction event just before, in the same space, and now the sense of intimacy that had animated that panel was gone. In this panel of journalists who write about some aspect of war, one woman was represented: Deborah Amos. The others participating were Philip Gourevitch, Arnon Grunberg, Sebastian Junger and Daniele Mastrogiacomo whose translator from the Italian sat beside him.
The first question put to them was why do you do this? What impels you to write about war?
Amos: war shows people at the extremes of behavior - both noble and despicable - and others need to know what those extremes are.
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