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"If I could revisit the
thousands of people I have
filmed in the worst moments of
their lives, I would share with
them my belief that by telling
me their stories they have
helped in some small way to
make the world a better place."
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artin Fletcher, an inter-
national broadcast cor-
respondent based in Israel
and dispatched to war zones, set out
to write a book about covering the
horrors of conflict and wound up
discovering and revealing a lot about
himself.
Fletcher's new autobiography,
Breaking News (Thomas Dunne Books;
$24.95), takes readers to battlegrounds
in the Mideast, Africa and Eastern
Europe, where he escaped bullets and
bombs to tell stories of bravery and
endurance, suffering and death.
"I began [my career] by covering
events, but I soon understood that I
was covering people says Fletcher, 60,
who worked as a French and German
interpreter before becoming a reporter.
"In different countries, I had all
kinds of terrible decisions to make
about what was right and what was
wrong while covering the news and, to
me, it all added up to a good book."
Fletcher's early assignments for
European news services gained the
attention of American news organiza-
tions and let him break through a sig-
nificant glass ceiling. A British native,
he was the first correspondent with an
accent to be hired by an American net-
work, NBC. A five-time Emmy winner,
he is Tel Aviv bureau chief
The reporter-author, whose parents
were Holocaust survivors who escaped
from Austria, married an Israeli and
is the father of three sons. He talked
about his book and personal life as
well as Israeli issues with the Detroit
Jewish News:
IN: What entered into your decision
to write Breaking News?
MF: I understood at a certain point
that day by day, story by story, over so
many places and so many years, I was
like a walking history book. I wanted
to share my experiences and the
dilemmas that I faced.
IN: How did you get all the material
together?
MF: Whenever something happened
that really affected me or I found
particularly interesting, I would write
four- or five-page letters to my parents
in London. Fortunately, they kept them
all. I also kept diaries of where I was
when. Because I work in television, I
could go back to the films.
IN: Did you stop working as a cor-
respondent while you worked on
the book?
MF: I did both simultaneously. I just
got up very early. I'm a morning writer,
but when I get into it, I can write for
10 or 12 hours without stopping. The
research for the book took about six
months and the writing took about six
months. It took about a year from sub-
mitting the final manuscript to seeing
it in print.
IN: Did you have to do anything
special to transition from reporter
to autobiographer?
MF: No. At a certain point, I decided