I was absolutely riveted and moved to tears by this transcript of Fox News' Jerusalem-based correspondent Jennifer Griffin's interview with C-SPAN's Brian Lamb. The 5'10" Harvard grad from Alexandria, VA talks about raising her two small daughters in a war zone; her tragic experiences covering the tsunami and the heartbreaking mission she went on in Thailand; the snuff films terrorists sent to her bureau in Moscow that made her refuse to go to Chechnya; her friend, wounded CBS reporter Kimberly Dozier; unknowingly living next door to the first World Trade Center bomber, Ramzi Yousef, in Pakistan; how she'd like to be based in Tehran, Iran; the horrifically surreal nature of covering suicide bombings; what it's like to be a Fox News reporter married to a New York Times reporter (one of them usually gets a back turned to them at parties)...and so much more. And she still manages to talk about it all in such a calm, thoughtful, wise way. This is truly one of the most fascinating interviews about the journalism business I've ever read, and Jennifer Griffin is definitely one of the most amazing people in the business. It's a long piece, but it's the definition of a must-read.
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