"And that rings true for war correspondents, particularly women war correspondents".
"That isn't true," reported National Public Radio correspondent Scott Detrow, an eyewitness.
This is true even if the correspondent's legal name is not used — or even necessarily known.
How much of it is true? A. Rick Lyman, a correspondent in Los Angeles who writes about Hollywood, responds: The short answer is, some of it.
Although the official cover story bills him as environment editor, an apparent subeditor's slip in bylining a recent report by him on cod stocks gave away the former media editor's secret true role as "Oceans correspondent", a post that must require him to patrol the high seas 24/7 in a sou'wester, covering a beat stretching from Sligo to Singapore, Valencia to Vladivostok.
I think that that's true of the cast of correspondents.
While it's true that, unlike the foreign correspondents Dexter Filkins and Steven Erlanger, you don't actually face the possibility every day of being shot in the line of work, the public editor has a near-impossible job.
There are, of course, exceptions – and Addario is now one herself – but it is true that whereas most male correspondents in their mid 30s or older have children (frequently brought up by wives who complain that they are virtually single parents), it is rarer for women to combine motherhood and war reporting.
"Welcome to Sarajevo," a film based on the true story of a war correspondent who smuggled a young girl out of a Sarajevan orphanage, is a very powerful movie.
"The current Pope wants a leaner Church of true believers," said Robert Mickens, Vatican correspondent for The Tablet, a Catholic newspaper.
