Los Angeles Times | Salon
For nearly five years in Iraq,
Borzou Daragahi was forced to tell half-truths to survive as a war journalist: "I was an Iranian heading to the shrine cities. I was an average Joe from the Midwest who liked to go canoeing in the summer. I was a reporter for Radio Canada here to tell the truth about what's happening in Iraq. I was an Iranian journalist visiting the brave fighters of Sadr City. ...In fact, I am an Iranian American reporter from Chicago, a graduate of Columbia University's journalism school, where I was taught that the greatest journalists were impartial and balanced." ||
Gary Kamiya: Why the media failed in Iraq.
