Bunker mentality: Iraq story reduces domestic journo work force in '05
Even with national elections to be held in the Iraqi cauldron on Jan. 31st, not even the dimmest grunt or least wired khaki-ed out journo harbor illusions of coming home soon. They’d better not. Because while the war depletes our boots on the ground, forcing Pentagon planners to train more of them, it is about to have the opposite effect on journalism, and not just of the war junkie kind.
With The New York Times nearing the end of construction of a hardened, steel-and-concrete bunker in Baghdad’s “Green Zone,” prepare for a big chunk of this quarter’s – hell, this whole year’s – operating budget to be siphoned there.
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