Showing the horrors of war is often the only way of stopping it

There are always two wars in every conflict: the military battle, and the fight for the world's hearts and minds. That’s why well-resourced news agencies like CNN, Reuters, the BBC, Al Jazeera and others need to be there to cover the war.

U.S. journalist Walter Cronkite conducts an interview in Hue, near the border of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, in 1968. Great journalists like him covered war not as proponents of one side or the other, but as the ones writing the first rough draft of history, writes Michael Harris.Wikimedia Commons photograph by National Archives and Records Administration

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

October 23, 2023

HALIFAX—The old cliché has it right: truth is the first casualty of war.

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