Oliver Poole told Falmouth University College students what
it’s like to be a war correspondent and the basic things which individuals need
to do to survive in harmful situations out in Iraq and other war scenarios.
Poole is a successful war correspondent who currently works
for the Independent/ The evening standard papers, a very successful newspaper
company who distribute newspapers daily across the United Kingdom.
However despite the success of both papers within the
company Poole told university College Falmouth students that: “I prefer to
write for the Evening standard rather than the independent purely because the
standard is read by everyone in London.”
Poole told students : “I was in Gaza two months ago which is
a particularly difficult place to get into”
As a war correspondent, Poole can relate to news stories
involving journalists out on the front line getting information and feeding it
into our public domain. Quite recently news broke out that the journalist Marie
Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in a rocket attack in the
district of Homs, Syria.
However Paul Conway, a photographer for the Sunday times
injured in the same attack which killed two journalists and 24 Syrian civilians
was released from capture and sent home to the UK.
Poole explains: “13
activists helping Conway got killed in the process of getting him out of Syria,
which is a lot of people killed to save one photographer”.
Carrying on from the topic he asks the question: “Why does
that person matter compared to the 13 who got killed?” in relation to the
controversial topic.
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