do you really care?

"People want shorter stories, and tell me they're 'numb' to the story," she protests. "I think it's unacceptable to be numb to the story. We have 168,000 [troops] there, we're spending huge amounts of money." It's especially frustrating for Fadel, who has always wanted to be a foreign correspondent, to find the news hole shrinking as the complexities grow: "Americans don't understand the war in the context of their own lives," she says, especially the massive displacement of Iraqis from their home

says Leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief and Correspondent, McClatchy News Papers. She was just awarded the prestigious Polk Award for journalism, among many honors she has garnered for her work in recent years.