In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn’t be any press without the censorship.
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.