Getting Out the Vote

January 14, 2005

If an Iraqi election takes place, but there's no one there to report it, does it make a sound? As conditions have deteriorated for foreign journalists in Iraq, they have increasingly relied on their Iraqi "fixers" for news gathering. Iraqi journalists aren't safe either - dozens have been killed since the war began. Hiwa Osman has been monitoring the state of Iraqi reporting for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, and updates Brooke on the situation in advance of this month's elections.


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