Truth, lies and good hair days Max Hastings praises John Simpson's account of what viewers don't see when he appears on television

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: September 15, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

News from No Man's Land: Reporting

the World

by John Simpson

Macmillan, pounds 20, 471 pp

pounds 18 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

ON NOVEMBER 13, 2001, John Simpson walked into Kabul with his camera crew ahead of the advancing Northern Alliance forces. He made himself famous - or rather, even more famous - and controversial. Disgruntled rivals in Kabul and London asserted that his behaviour was egocentric and irresponsible. They disputed that Simpson got into Kabul first; and made comparisons with the deplorable behaviour of another journalist in Port Stanley 19 years earlier.

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