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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.

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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.

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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

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My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.

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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

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War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.

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People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Journalist

Born: September 19th, 1945

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