San Jose Mercury News
From Glenn Lovell's interview with Washington Post reporter Jackie Spinner:
How has re-entry been at the paper?
(Hollow laughter) I am actively seeking a new beat. I've spent the last couple of months talking to Iraqi veterans who have come home. . . . But I have to say, I don't think my editors at the paper have been as supportive of me coming home as I would like them to be. My fellow reporters have always been supportive.
Why haven't your editors been supportive?
Because they don't know how to deal with somebody like me. They don't know how to deal with a reporter who has spent as much time as I've spent in a war zone. This war is unlike any we've known.
How have you changed?
I'm jumpy. I'm angry. I'm unpredictable. I'm depressed. I have very serious post-traumatic stress disorder, which is common among people who spend 13 months in a war zone like Iraq. But unlike other reporters, I'm honest about it.
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