Tim Arango's The Times: An Analysis

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The journalist’s passion sometimes indirectly converts to addiction just right after they has probed more deeply in detail. Then, their assigned tasks turns to be an endless investigation so that they will never return home.
According to Page One, Tim Arango, a media desk reporter of The Times, had gone to Baghdad for every little detail of the situation in order to come back and report it. Still, his colleague, David Carr, said that he did not wish Tim a good luck because he might never come back if he probed too much in the war. Additionally, Tim even mentioned that many reporters went to the war in a front row and never come back because they were very obsessed with the investigation. Similarly to the Page One, Hannah Storm, director

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