So You Want to Be a War Correspondent

So You Want to Be a War CorrespondentCOMMENTARY by Susan Katz KeatingThe work has been called the most dangerous form of journalism. They simply want to go downrange, and hope to get there farther and faster under the guise of being a war correspondent. War tourism existed during the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, the Crimean War, and most recently in Syria, Ukraine, and Israel. The newbies each came home and claimed to have been a war correspondent. What does it take, then, to be a war correspondent; and how do you become one?