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Article: No Longer Live From Baghdad.(Media&Society)
- Article from:
- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- March 31, 2003
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Byline: Dan Harris and Gabriel Sherman
Baghdad in early March was experiencing a first blast of spring. The air was soft and warm. The pool at our huge, concrete, Soviet-style hotel teemed with journalists. In the lobby, soothing Muzak versions of "Copacabana" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You" were on heavy rotation. The city was stubbornly serene.
War felt like an abstraction. But we all knew it was coming. The question before us was: Do we stick around to cover it? To stay meant hunkering down through what our colleagues at the Pentagon promised would be a hellishly intense battle, possibly featuring the use of chemical weapons. It also meant ...