In Extremis

In Extremis

The life of war correspondent Marie Colvin

Book Review

In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum
Vintage

The Super Bowl professional football championship is the single biggest sporting event in America. The television audience is enormous – some 100 million people watched the game this year – allowing the network to charge corporations $10 million a minute to air their advertisements. These ads famously try to convince the captive audience, through wit or sentimentality, to buy the beer or the car, the food or the skin cream, for sale.

Yellow cover of AFA6 with blue writing and a picture of a plane flying over the sea

The full article from Our Sphere of Influence: Rivalry in the Pacific is only available to subscribers.

Get full digital access to AFA back issues and three upcoming issues from just $29.99.

Login or subscribe to read.