WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2005
New York Observer
New York Times Baghdad bureau chief
John Burns worries how posterity will judge his and his colleagues' war reporting. "I spend some time, as one who has some responsibility for shaping our coverage here, asking myself what are they going to be saying in the journalism classes of 2025, 2030, about the New York Times coverage here, against whatever the outcome is? … Were we too Pollyanna-ish and too optimistic? Or were we too pessimistic? I think one thing we would all have to plead guilty to is having perhaps underestimated the degree of difficulty accomplishing what the United States set out to do here."
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