The Outside Interview: Robert Young Pelton
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The Downsides of Covering Wars
"I never liked working as a journalist I've worked for 60 minutes," he says. "My gun boy gave me a severed head and he wanted to put a wire through the ears." He was in Liberia with the lead rebels when they were being attacked by Russian forces. CNN's John Defterios has covered wars that no one else wants to cover, including South Sudan where he documented some of the most brutal murders ever seen.
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