Kate Adie

Journalist

1945-09-19

Kate Adie is an English journalist and broadcaster known for frontline reporting and her long career with the BBC.

Quotes by Kate Adie

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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Twenty-four hour news delivers people who stand and talk to camera rather than deliver reported packages with their own camera crew where it's happening.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
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People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
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