Response to Disguise

Response to Disguise
I agree with RB, it is probably much easier to explore the Persian Gulf if you are in a disguise, but she does not state the real reasons why this is true. People are not permitted into the Persian Gulf because it is so dangerous and they people do not want what is going on to be publicized. Horwitz snuck onto a boat thinking he was getting top secret footage, when really all he got was a nerve racking boat trip from beneath the deck through mine filled waters. Not allowing people into the Persian Gulf is mostly in order to protect them. It is not safe for reporters, what would happen if one of them was killed? They would become heroes in their homelands and the people of Dubai would be blamed. Granted RB is right when saying reporters are permitted almost everywhere in the US, this is not true in many other places. Reporters also are often not allowed to publish some of what they’ve seen. For instance later in the novel, Chapter 8 The Iraq-Iran Front: Bodies, we see how desperate reporters are to get a shot of corpses laying limb amidst the battle grounds. They are permitted to do so, but how often do we actually see this pictures? There was an American reported savaging for pictures of the bodies, “This is all very scenic,” the American said, “but where are the goddamn bodies?” After reading this I thought very hard and I cannot remember a time where dead bodies were actually shown to the public.
-DPD