Washington Post
From Post continuous news AME (and former war reporter)
Rajiv Chandrasekaran's chat:
Washington, D.C.:It seems that the media has been eager to portray Ms. Carroll as some sort of heroic young reporter risking her life in Iraq to get the real story for the world. To me, however, she seems instead to be a naive and idealistic young woman whose motivations, whatever they were, prompted her to make foolish decisions that cost at least one of her companions his life. But that doesn't really fit the story the newspapers want to write.
Rajiv Chandrasekaran: She may have been bit naive and idealistic, but she's not foolish. She was captured while out trying to report a story about Iraq's political process. Although she wasn't traveling in an armored vehicle, she did take steps to try to conceal her identity--and protect herself. She wouldn't have gotten that story had she stayed in her hotel. Journalists in Iraq have to take risks to assemble the sorts of stories that help people in the United States and elssewhere understand what's really happening in Iraq.
