Also, today I finished Asne Seierstad's One Hundred and One Days. This book was written by a journalist corresponding for Scandinavian press and media from Baghdad during the US attacks in the early 2000's, and gives a very close view of life in a city under attack, as well as the other bureaucratic and propagandist trials and tribulations of being a journalist in Iraq. Well written and compelling, worth a read.
It highlights the frustration that journalists encounter, and the realities of life for reporters working in a warzone outside the 4 or 5 minute report that we watch at 6pm in our cosy sitting room world.
