NPR's Terry Gross Interviews War Photographer Paul Watson

"The wars in human hearts are just as important and are certainly connected to the larger wars we watch on tv's," says Canadian photojournalist Paul Watson to Terry Gross on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" program [1].

Later, given cause, Gross asks the Canadian journalist, "Are you saying that being a war correspondent is a form of mental illness?"

Watson answers without a skipped beat: "I think it is."

Follow the link and you'll find the interview quite good with the photographer who got That Picture when he photographed Staff Sargeant William David Cleveland's still limp corpse dragged by a festive crowd loyal to warlord Mohammed Farah Adid through the streets of Mogadishu.

The interview accompanies release of Watson's book, Where War Lives.

For additional web commentary, Paul Gessell's profile, "The haunting of Paul Watson," [2] provides a wrapper.

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1. Gross, Terry.  "Journalist Paul Watson on Witnessing War."  NPR, "Fresh Air from WHYY" , August 27, 2007.

2. Gessell, Paul. "The haunting of Paul Watson."  The Ottowa Citizen,  August 19, 2007.

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