Getting a story on the evening news isn’t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News.

For the people in Iraq, the war is full time. A woman wept as the body of a relative was borne to burial in Najaf.
For the people in Iraq, the war is full time. A woman wept as the body of a relative was borne to burial in Najaf.

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Five years into the war in Iraq and nearly seven years into the war in Afghanistan, getting news of the conflicts onto television is harder than ever.
“If I were to watch the news that you hear here in the United States, I would just blow my brains out because it would drive me nuts,” Ms. Logan said.

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