ABSTRACT
For Andrew Kain, the ex-soldier and the former CBC producer, some of the most impressively brave journalism is practiced by local journalists who somehow find the inner strength to continue publishing newspapers and broadcasting reports that daily put them in harm's wayIt. The author was a senior journalist and field producer for a CBC TV news team that had been in San Salvador long enough to get press credentials, a translator and a van that we'd loaded with our gear. It was Hoagland, on assignment for Newsweek, who had upbraided the author when he met him earlier that year outside of the Camino Real Hotel, one of those hotels forever linked in journalists' minds as the Salvador war hotel. Andrew Kain and the author talked about the differences between time-honored journalistic risk taking and dangerously foolish courage at the end of a Marshall Center-organized conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on "military and media relations."
