11 June 2007

A journalist in the making - The rare Qualities

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/09/0081195

"But I couldn't fathom doing the work any longer. I had become what I had to admit was the antithesis of a journalist. And if I continued to suborn Iraqi reporters with U.S. military money, this would surely mean I would never be able to work as one."

"There was still one remaining formality before I was set to go. I had to travel to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to pick up a Common Access Card, a kind of passepartout for military facilities all over the world."
"They often speculated about the company, suspecting that it might secretly be owned by the Carlyle Group or that some of its employees were really CIA."

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