
the other hand it
now appears quite
possible that the
entire Crimean War
was a journalistic
hoax perpetrated by
the same whisky
klatch of reporters
who some years
previously were to
boast of covering
the entire Russian-
Finnish War from
the Press Club in
Helsinki. "End
Run" Granger,
veteran war
correspondent on
The Bad News,
stated flatly at the
time: "I have never
seen a battlefield
and I never intend
to." You see, it's
more humane that
way. It's the old
army game, kid,
now you see it, now
you don't.