Foreign Correspondents & the Information Revolution

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Foreign Correspondents & the Information Revolution
      

I remember the first satellite phone I used. It was during Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait. The phone was in a large aluminum trunk. It required setting up a satellite dish in the open air. And it weighed about 80 pounds! A Kuwaiti resistance fighter had smuggled it into his country from Saudi Arabia.

Back in those days (it was only 1990), most correspondents did not use email. Websites were not widespread. And there were no BlackBerries...


         

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