"All the news that's fit to print"!
Durrani is correct except failing to note that getting good reporting out of CJTF-82 is problematic also. It's a logistics nightmare alone.
After seeing the Valley of Death story and ABC's accompaning video, it's not something for some skirt (or even guy) to roll in on a chopper and blow back out in time to catch the "afternoon follies" followed by cocktails in Kabul. Even worse in Pakistan, maybe.
A.M., you'd be a great reporter back there. You've the skills, perspective, curiousity, and temperment. Not enough qualified "home boys" who've the necessary emotional distance from the issues. Not enough support from Mr. Durrani's government to get a good story done well into the hands of people who matter, either.
A high school classmate was Time Magazine's deputy managing editor. We talked about this once as we've a mutual friend who, thrice, snuck into Afghanistan back in 1982-84 for eight weeks total and wrote some articles for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Coverage is for the "studs", he said. Doing it right without agenda can get you killed (literally) by everybody.
