Word: carlson
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...Carlson says he feels no jealousy toward the contemporaries who seemed to find postgraduate success so quickly—nor, he says, is he bitter anymore about the gastrointestinal ailment that prevented him from going to Cyprus as a professional war reporter all those years...
...Then it seemed like a disaster,” Carlson says. “It probably was a blessing…I would have been way too affected, I would have been haunted by covering this kind of thing…[I had] covered a lot of demonstrations, but war is a completely different level of meaning and experience and toll...
What’s more, Carlson might never have ended up reporting on embedded reporters in Iraq had he become a war correspondent all those years ago. It was at the 1993 Iron Man competition in Hawaii, which he was covering, that Carlson met Triathlete magazine founder Katovsky—a participant in as well as a reporter on the trials of strength and endurance...
...were fast friends as well as colleagues. It took 10 years, though, before Katovsky’s news-junkie habits led him and Carlson to the idea that would become Embedded...
...soon as they heard about the U.S. embedding program, in which journalists accompanied military units as they descended on Iraq, Carlson says he and Katovsky were fascinated by what they saw as “a sea change in war coverage.” In the first months of 2003, just before the U.S. invaded, he says the embedding process became something like an obsession for the two men who had spent years on the fringes of swashbuckling journalism...