Polish Based Encounter - Journalists

[Rainbow Six]

I am sure there will be journalists from Asia/Pacific (Chinese, Japanese, Aussie/NZ) stranded in Europe and vice versa, but by 2000, I doubt they will be earning a living reporting for their original organization. Simply put - they won't be reporting (lack of communication channels), they won't be paid (lack of international banking) and will need to earn money doing something else or working for someone else.

For example, Hikaru Takihashi, dashing correspondent for the Nippon Daily, by late 1998 may find himself working as a waiter in a Magdeburg cafe, or as a contractor driving trucks for the BAOR rather than sending home biweekly articles.

Uncle Ted

That general point is covered in the original article

Despite this, a small number of individuals continue to pursue oethe news, each working to their own agenda. In many cases the hi tech tools of their trade are gone, replaced with pens, pencils, and notebooks that would have been familiar to the correspondents who in previous centuries had recorded events at Gettysburg, Passchendaele, or Normandy. Some are driven by an inordinate curiosity, a desire to still seek out the truth, even though they may have no way to tell their story, no one to tell it to. Others have used their talents as a means to survive themselves, trading information for water, food, and the other essentials of survival. Some scribble down notes and take their pictures for no reason other than perhaps to be able to record events for future generations, in some cases for altruistic reasons, perhaps hoping that the mistakes of history will not be repeated, whilst others, more selfish, think of the time when books will be written again, published, sold, and consider the royalties they hope to earn.

Clearly not every Journalist in Europe is still going to be plying their original trade, but I see no reason why some non European ones can't fall into one of the above categories.

[unkated]

Perhaps, but someone not actively being a journalist, without support from some organization, is not likely to be encountered on a road in the wilds of Poland, which was the point of the original.

And at the moment of encounter, if my waiter tells me he is from Japan and is a TV new reporter, I still want him to bring me tea and a croisent rather than sit for an interview.

Uncle Ted

[Targan]

Nicaraguar, maybe I'm getting a film and reality mixed up but some nuns were executed and I think a journo too.

You're thinking of the (very good) 1986 Oliver Stone film Salvador which depicts the real-life murders of 4 American nuns by a group of El Salvadoran national guardsmen in December 1980. The main character in the film was American photojournalist Richard Boyle (played by James Woods) but he wasn't murdered, he just knew one of the murdered nuns.

[James Langham2]

IIRC Sgt Major Plumley basically forced him to.

By co-incidence I have just come across the fact that he was carrying an M16 when he boarded the flight out. Plumley as well as the M1911 he carries in the film also carried an M14.

[Targan]

By co-incidence I have just come across the fact that he was carrying an M16 when he boarded the flight out. Plumley as well as the M1911 he carries in the film also carried an M14.

Yeah, I thought it was pushing believability a bit that a senior NCO like Plumley would go into combat without carrying a longarm and that the movie was just trying to spice up the narrative a bit, but then again with a guy like Plumley who's going to tell him what to do

Personally I thought the movie did the book justice. Obviously there's only so much detail you can pack into less than 2 hours of screen time, but I wasn't too disappointed with it.

[Apache6]

Female Journalist in the field.

Photo of an NPC. That would also make a interesting PC.

[Adm.Lee]

Coincidence can be amusing Over on the T2k page on Facebook, someone posted that she played a French TV journalist in Silesia in a T2k game, then I come over here and see this.

[Olefin]

journalists can be very useful - most have language skills and make good interrogators to get information out of people without them knowing it - and a real field journalist (as opposed to the equivalent of a REMF - i.e. a news anchor for instance) can keep up quite well with soldiers in the field