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By AnonymKate Adie
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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By AnonymKate Adie
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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By AnonymKate Adie
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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By AnonymKate Adie
Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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By AnonymKate Adie
If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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By AnonymKate Adie
I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.'
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By AnonymKate Adie
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
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By AnonymKate Adie
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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By AnonymKate Adie
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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By AnonymKate Adie
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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By AnonymKate Adie
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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By AnonymKate Adie
No two wars are identical.
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By AnonymKate Adie
Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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By AnonymKate Adie
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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By AnonymKate Adie
People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
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By AnonymKate Adie
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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By AnonymKate Adie
There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
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By AnonymKate Adie
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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By AnonymKate Adie
War zones are dangerous, protests can be violent, also, natural disasters are difficult to cover, so there are going to be risks.
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