Reporting on War (w/ Ben Anderson) | The Chris Hedges Report

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War correspondent Ben Anderson joins host Chris Hedges to detail the numbing physical and psychological elements of war reporting — and asks whether or not the truth can really change anything. Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/ Follow The Chris Hedges Report on social media: https://linktr.ee/chrishedges (0:00) Intro (1:56) What made Ben want to go to war? (6:29) What kept Ben in war? (9:21) First conflict, hack journalists (13:12) Experience of combat and warlords (17:57) Too late to nation-build (19:23) When goals shifted in Afghanistan (20:42) Chaos of combat (24:01) What kept Ben going? (27:22) Culture of war / access to warfare (33:39) Clash of narratives (37:40) What’s happening to the profession? (40:51) British forces’ equipment (42:49) Technological superiority myth (46:00) What did it do to the soldiers? (47:32) Similarities between correspondents and soldiers (49:03) Drugs in Afghanistan (50:56) Concepts of regime change (54:07) How war numbs you to horrors (57:32) Ben’s bout with MDMA therapy (1:01:13) How Ben currently copes (1:02:27) The trivialization of news (1:05:49) Palestinian journalists (1:07:10) Outro