April 3, 2003
The videophone-enabled war
In an interesting article retracing war correspondants use of technology since 1846, from the telegraph to videophones, Bob Sullivan for MSNBC explains how technology got new life late in the 1990s when satellite phones, married to a laptop computer and a small video camera, enabled war correspondents for the first time, to beam live video from anywhere.
In this war, there appear to be cameras everywhere, even some behind the lines in Baghdad. Hundreds of reporters are filing stories and airing live reports while traveling with U.S. troops on the move. "For many observers of war correspondent technology, the videophone is the holy grail, finally allowing journalists to bring viewers as close as possible to the front lines, letting people see for themselves the war as it unfolds".
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