The presence of the reporter and the 3 thousand journalists who saw the Iraq War in the surrounding of the conflict

Abstract

This article talks about the presence of the reporter in coverage of armed conflicts, especially during the Iraq War, in 2003, the potential to transform the narrator and the narrative from this experience, the coverage from the periphery of war, the use of technology as subject and instrument of coverage. The analysis follows the documentary War feels like war, by Esteban Uyarra, and reflects questions from authors as Benjamin, Agamben, Foucault, Martin-Barbero, Hoskins and Chomsky. The analysis follows a group of journalists who covered the Iraq War as ‘unilaterals’ and were more then three thousand in Kuwait, revealing journalism as narrative, its possibilities and potentials.