Romenesko

MotherJones.com
"If we do, we'll lose our self-respect, and also our country," says "Abdul," who works for Reuters. The correspondent has an almost religious sense of mission. "My wife has begged me to quit my job and even to leave Iraq," Abdul tells Greg Veis. "But I told her that every day tens of Iraqis are being killed for no reason, and they will be forgotten otherwise. To die as a journalist, I would know that I was killed while I was reporting the truth. I would die proud."