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 ==Possible directions for article improvement== 

 * It's important to mention that many war correspondents, historically, have been heavily censored. Governments are inconsistent as to what information is allowed and when, so there should be some perspective on where censorship was unusually harsh or lax. Some war correspondents are political mouthpieces for a government or a political faction. An example that comes to mind is McArthur ""landing twice"" on the Philippines so the cameras could get better shots of him. 

 * Sometimes war correspondents act as investigative journalists, but that may not be any more effective, because military organizations are often sheltered from questions they disapprove of. 

 * War correspondents may not be ""lucky"" about they see. Richard Tregaskis became hugely successful for ""Guadalcanal Diary"", where he was in a very important battleground, but in the Cold War era, less notable happened to him, and his books had less impact and are not well remembered. (There's a war correspondent book called ""Assignment to Nowhere"". Yep. Just about nothing happened.) 

 * A small section should mention war correspondents who caused problems, or who, one way or the other, misrepresented the situation (outside of censorship). Examples are the BBC leaking important information in the Falklands, a couple near misses in WWII, and...for example...the Pulitzer Prize winner Eddie Adams, who later felt guilty for a famous photo of a Vietnamese execution that turned out to be other than what he thought. 

 * Some material in the section that was deleted, about war correspondents ""dirtying themselves up"" to have a better camera appearance should be brought back, if there is appropriate cited material. 

 One way to proceed would be to quote from published works of the correspondents themselves, when they discuss their job situation. 

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