In wars, how often do battles have news reporters and camera men on the scene? Are most of the news people also soldiers or at least equipped with weapons? Always thought this was one of the coolest jobs after seeing the news reporter in Lawrence of Arabia taking pictures of Lawrence's train sabotage. The reporter seemed pretty careless about how he wandered around the battlefield, as though he weren't going to be attacked because he wasn't a soldier.
>>979114
Civilian newsmen, the guys from BBC, New York Times, Le Monde or Al Jazeera... are civilians, no soldiers, they do not fight and have no weapons.
Armies may deploy their own info teams, to film or record stuff for news or promotional purposes, such men being part of the army may carry weapons and even fight if needed but they are not deployed with that purpose.
>>979165
>Civilian newsmen, the guys from BBC, New York Times, Le Monde or Al Jazeera
How often do they get captured / killed?
>>979167
Check some Journalist assoc, to see some figures:
>https://cpj.org/killed/
I know that various have died recently in Syria.
Ernest Hemingway famously got a bit involved when he was a journalist covering the Spanish Civil War. There are pictures of him feeding belts into a machine gun.
What amazes me are the various footage taken in WW2 by cameraman. There's footage of soldiers getting shot, planes crashing into the ground, tanks and various ships being blown away. Truly amazing.
>>979114
bump
>>979229
>Ernest Hemingway
wasn't he an actual soldier or something
>>983011
He enlisted himself to the Militias of the POUM, if I recall correctly.
during the American Civil War journalists actually caused damage
it was really easy to capture a journalist who just made an impromptu note and use the intel he gathered to actually surprise the opponent, Yankees lost a good amount of people because of that
>>983036
No he didn't.
He visited the front lines, fired a machine gun at the enemy line and probably felt and looked good while doing it. Didn't stay for the following artillery response.
I think this one was from Orwell's book, who himself fought along POUM
