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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

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Kate Adie
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: September 19
Journalist
Television Presenter
Writer
Top Shagger
Kathryn Adie
Democracy
Literature
Better
Good
Never
Secrecy
Works
Silence
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
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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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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
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I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
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On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
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Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.
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I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.
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I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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