{"id":19689,"date":"2013-04-02T09:02:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19689"},"modified":"2013-04-02T09:02:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T14:02:47","slug":"reporting-on-maggies-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/reporting-on-maggies-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting on &#8220;Maggie&#8217;s War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>History Today<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historytoday.com\/patrick-bishop\/falklands-watching-maggies-war\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Bishop<\/a> recounts his experiences as a war correspondent during the Falklands War, 31 years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, a young reporter attached to 3 Commando Brigade aboard the requisitioned cruise ship <em>Canberra<\/em>, covering \u2018Maggie\u2019s war\u2019 was a process of constant revelation. The soldiers, the sea and landscapes, the actuality of combat &mdash; everything was surprising and collided with expectations.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived in the war, like Britain itself, bemused at the suddenness of events. One minute I was a home news hack on the <em>Observer<\/em>, the next I was an official war correspondent, with a red cloth-covered Second World War-issue booklet of regulations and the rank of honorary captain.<\/p>\n<p>We left from Southampton on a drizzly Good Friday evening. Two or three hundred wives, girlfriends and children had gathered on the quayside to say goodbye and good luck to their menfolk, while onboard a band played \u2018A Life On The Ocean Wave\u2019 and \u2018Land Of Hope And Glory\u2019. The crowd was cheerfully patriotic. Some waved union flags. Two buxom girls, soon the object of close attention by the TV cameras, were wearing T-shirts with the legend \u2018Give The Argies Some Bargie\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Who were these people? To my metropolitan eyes they appeared somewhat alien. Indeed they were. The era of Callaghan\u2019s Labour government, which was replaced by Margaret Thatcher\u2019s Conservative administration in 1979, had forced patriotism underground. Mrs T. was untried and not yet confident enough to encourage its resurrection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In History Today, Patrick Bishop recounts his experiences as a war correspondent during the Falklands War, 31 years ago: For me, a young reporter attached to 3 Commando Brigade aboard the requisitioned cruise ship Canberra, covering \u2018Maggie\u2019s war\u2019 was a process of constant revelation. The soldiers, the sea and landscapes, the actuality of combat &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[465,4,7,5],"tags":[492,493,390,213],"class_list":["post-19689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-britain","category-history","category-military","tag-argentina","tag-falklandislands","tag-margaretthatcher","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-57z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19690,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19689\/revisions\/19690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}