How the New York Times has kept faith with Iraq reporting

After the rush to send reporters to Iraq at the start of the war back in 2003,only the New York Times of the US papers still has an embedded prescense there.

Vanity Fair magazine has a good feature on the papers coverage of the war

unlike virtually every other news organization on the planet, it has not significantly cut back on the number of staff it has on the ground in Iraq, a commitment which costs upwards of $3 million a year. “You can’t cover a story only when interest peaks,” says Bill Keller, the paper’s executive editor. “You have to walk the beat all the time. This is so integral to what readers expect in The New York Times that if we stopped covering the war in Iraq we should just go out of business.”

At least it has its priorities correct

Ht-Richard Sambrook