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While the American TV networks lumbered around with a dozen or so people and trucks full of supplies, CNN kicked their butts with this crew or several others like it. They were light and quick and all three people were incredibly hard working. Ammanpour typically worked 20 hours a day, as far as I could tell. None of this was lost on the Bosnian peasants out in the boonies. They had satelite dishes here and there and watched the news the crews who moved among them were reporting. Once a gang from CBS got drunk at Viktoria's and four of them were pissing off the balcony, standing in a row. Two grizzly old farmers looked up and I heard one say "just like their news." That's Christiane Amanpour seated, the sound man, whose name I never heard, and on the right is Nik Robertson, who was part of the support crew, now one of CNN's main people in Iraq and Pakistan.
All photos are the exclusive property of James Mason
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