Maybe it’s for the best that my dreams of covering America’s New War didn’t work out. After all, the number of Western journalists killed is beating the number of Western soldiers killed, 8 to 1.

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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)

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