ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of the book. The book focuses on the great wealth of studies related to danger zone journalism which have helped to understand the special dynamics of war reporting. Words, images and their organization shape the meanings, beliefs, and emotions that impel us toward individual and collective action or inaction. War-wagers use them in as effort to win in the battlefield of hearts and minds in aid to the physical battlefield. Ethical journalism acts as a check on distortions, propaganda, or other falsehoods, and most interviewed journalists believed this to be a key part of their job description. Foreign correspondents, however, face a different set of complications. They must gain access, often through hostile terrain, and learn as they go new lands, local politics, culture, and customs. Journalists and their work are vital for the delivery of much-needed, accurate, contextual information to local and international communities.
