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KIMBERLY DOZIER: Now I wonder if some of the media haven’t painted themselves into a corner. When I talk to members of the U.S. public, as in, I’m walking in the grocery store, someone looks at me, they look at me twice, hey, wait, you’re that reporter chick who got bombed, and they come out with their opinion on the war in Iraq. And from World War II veterans to housewives with a baby on their hip, what I most hear is, we should just get out of there and let them kill each other. And I think, great, they’ve decided what’s happened with the war on the ground.
A recent pew survey said that fewer than 40 percent of people surveyed think that Iraq can turn out in any positive way. So I found some of my colleagues being very tentative about reporting success on the ground. And I found that the U.S. audience is confused, they don’t know, is the administration crying wolf, or is it us.So I’m here to tell you that what I have learned from this whole experience is that I’m going to keep sticking to my guns, telling you what I think I see, even though it’s not popular, because that’s the only way that I can both serve the fourth estate and the American people I’m trying to educate.
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