Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner
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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.

By BRIAN STELTER
Published: June 23, 2008

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. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network.

Lara Logan told Jon Stewart recently that war news is hard to get onto TV.
“Generally what I say is, ‘I’m holding the armor-piercing R.P.G.,’ â€