Romenesko Misc.
While in Iraq, St. Paul Pioneer Press editorial page associate editor
Mark Yost "can listen to our bureau's morning planning meetings, where we orchestrate a trip to buy bottled water (the tap water is contaminated, when it works) as if we're plotting a military operation," says Knight Ridder Baghdad bureau chief
Hannah Allam (left). "I wonder whether he prefers riding in the first car -- the most exposed to shrapnel and bullets -- or the chase car, which is designed to act as a buffer between us and potential kidnappers."
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Yost: "I know the reporting's bad because I know people in Iraq" (SPPP)
