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Foreign correspondent
John Burns elaborates: "This is not to confirm what some of the more scathing critics of the American media’s performance in Iraq have alleged, which is that American reporters in Baghdad practice a form of 'hotel journalism' -- meaning that for most of what we write we rely on the reporting of Iraqi staff members who venture beyond our well-guarded compounds, and rarely do so ourselves." Colleague
Damien Cave says that among reporters, "there is a pervasive sense of fear and tension. It isn't debilitating and it's far less than what the troops or what Iraqis face every day, but it’s there."
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Of the 108 journalists killed in Iraq since 2003, 86 were Iraqis (SDU-T)
