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"NewsHour" correspondent
Jeffrey Brown asks
John Burns if covering war has taken a personal toll on him. "Look, it would be foolish and vainglorious of me to say, you know, 'We don't feel it.' Of course we feel it, and we should feel it," he says. "I tell newly arrived New York Times correspondents that they should have no illusions about where they are and no illusions about the potential price that they may pay for being there. But it needs to be said that covering a war and covering a war of the significance that this war has assumed for the United States is an exhilarating affair. It's a tragic affair. But if you're a reporter, if you're a foreign reporter, you want to be where the big story is." || Related
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Sherry Ricchiardi.
