Blogger Eric Johnson was a part of the Iraqi invasion in 2003 as a Marine reservist. He says that the Washington Post's Baghdad office is giving a false impression of what is happening in the country.
Part of the explanation is Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. He spent most of his career on the metro and technology beats, and has only four years of foreign reporting, two of which are in Iraq. The 31-year-old now runs a news operation that can literally change the world, heading a bureau that is the source for much of the news out of Iraq.
Very few newspapers have full-time international reporters at all these days, relying on stringers of varying quality, as well as wire services such as Reuters and Agence France-Presse, also of varying quality. The Post's reporting is delivered intravenously into the bloodstream of Official Washington, and thus a front-page article out of Iraq can have major repercussions in policy-making.
The entire article is worth the time. He relates some specific events that he witnessed and how the Post covered them.
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in my own opinion IRAQ is one of the most dangerous country where bunch of terrorism who were against government policy..
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