ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on journalists' attempts to navigate through multiple obstacles in the way of accurate documentation about what they believe are important histories. It explores more deeply the changing nature of war and access, journalists' efforts to separate reality from bravado, spin, and pure fiction, and how they wrest their stories from the throes of censorship, whether from militaries or their own bosses. The chapter discusses their decisions about trade-offs related to embedding with militaries or independently sneaking into dangerous territories. The chapter explores how foreign correspondents navigate through a maze of restrictions in efforts to wrest some piece of truth or truths from the clutches of their suppressors. Abductions, murders, imprisonment, and post-story punishment, real-life and career hazards, constrain journalistic freedom on two fronts by removing or disabling recalcitrant journalists after the fact and by discouraging their pursuits for fear of retribution.
