USA Today
"Have we undercovered the good news?" asks NYT war reporter
John Burns. "We probably have. But there's nothing willful about it. I would enter a plea of mitigation that we are overstretched." Fox News Channel exec
Jerry Burke says
Donald Rumsfeld and
President Bush must know that "it's incredibly dangerous and that the media has a very difficult job. We have to cover some aspect of the story so we cover what we can cover without getting our anchors and our reporters blown up."
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"I would like to see somebody like [NYT reporter] Jeff Gettleman or another reporter do an actual regular column from Iraq," says
Michael Massing. "What's it like? What are you hearing on the street? You can often communicate much more that way than in the traditional political type of story."
("NewsHour)
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Danger is just one impediment to getting the story in Iraq (AJR)
