Quote Originally Posted by Cori View Post
Okay, first, if someone can backchannel me how to do the thing where you make it obvious you're quoting someone, I'd really appreciate it.

That said, as I've backchanneled Marc, I think that were we to proceed with a survey of newsies, it would be critical that our criteria for who to survey be set completely aside from any results coming from the military survey. They need to be based on something like self-definitions of "beat" ("do you consider yourself primarily a Pentagon or national security correspondent?") or by empirical criteria, like number of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, or total time in those bureaus.
If you're looking for reporters to ask here's a good list:

George Packer, New Yorker
Greg Jaffe, Wall Street Journal
Tom Ricks, Washington Post
Joe Galloway, Retired (Reuters)
Anne Scott Tyson, Washington Post

Arguably the 5 most current and constant reporters with varying views. I'm sure there are a host of others, but those 5 names immediately came to mind thinking of this.