"This book has presented a critical, historically grounded analysis of the role of the war correspondent. It has highlighted the risks, the problems and the failures that have defined the role but it has also given credit where that is due and acknowledged the inspirational example of correspondents such as William Howard Russell, Morgan Philips Price, Martha Gellhorn, Wilfred Burchett, John Pilger and Robert Fisk. Their work seems to bear testament to the ideal beloved of all journalists and writers, of ‘telling truth to power’. But as Arundhati Roy has argued, ‘Power owns the truth [and] knows the truth just as well if not better than the powerless know the truth’ (2004, p. 68). In view of everything that has gone before in this book, I think she is right. Telling truth to power does not change or lessen the risks and dangers that accompany the journalist in the war zone. And as we have seen, the risks are not equal; the level of special training, protection and institutional support journalists receive depends on the size and wealth of their media employer." (Conclusion, p.214) "This is the second edition of a book first published in 2002, and has been significantly updated and restructured to consider the various issues and debates that have surrounded the reporting of the major conflicts that have happened since then, such as those in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It ends with an entirely new chapter that looks at the implications for western journalism of two recent reporting paradigms: the ‘war on terror’ frame that defined our understanding of conflict in the first decade of the new century and a newly-emerging Cold War frame that heralds the return of the Evil Empire: Vladimir Putin’s Russia." (p.3-4)