Adie came to prominence on our screens during the siege at the Iranian embassy in London back in 1980 and has reported from many of the world's conflict zones.
“I’m an old-fashioned reporter,” she admits. “I want the viewer to be informed about what is going on and let them have their own reactions. If a journalist is in a war scene and walks by a series of corpses and says, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’, well, there’ll be some viewers who have seen such a thing, so you haven’t reported as well as you could.”
She also reveals her views on the modern reporter
“In these days of 24-hour news, you tend to get reporters standing by the satellite dishes instead of discovering the story,”
Also take a look at Daniel Lak's view of the war reporter
Once they were neutral participants in the world's wars — observers, bringers of succour, advocates for humanitarian codes of conduct, gatherers of information. No more. One thousand media workers have died in war zones in the past 10 years. Not even United Nations or Red Cross workers are safe. Dozens have been killed since the turn of the millennium, and the toll among smaller, less well known aid organizations and charities is even higher.
He quotes Rodney Pinder of the International News Safety Institute who says
In the '60s and '70s, reporters were somehow regarded by all sides as tellers of the story, people who got out their version, and were allowed to operate safely in war zones, Now, with the Internet and easy video making, everyone with a grudge or a grievance thinks they don't need journalists, that telling a balanced tale is an aggressive act."
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