The Modern American War Journalist

This is a short documentary detailing the evolution of war journalism and the impact war journalists have on the public's perception of war. While I'm hoping my topic will mainly concentrate on the current War in Iraq, as JP Keenan, the director of this individual documentary points out, war journalism has been around since as early as the Spanish-American War in 1898. He points out that the modern war journalist faces the critical choice of having to report the truth without the distortion of war politics, without the difficulty of having to censor the horrors of war to spare the public.