Bad Times

Bad Times
: It’s bad enough being in a warzone. It’s worse being there for The Times. Says Sridhar Pappu in the Observer:

One Times source described the situation at the Baghdad bureau as its own “war” with “major turf and ego battles, swaggering and big-footing by some and plenty of pouting, thrown elbows and bureaucratic jujitsu in return.” …

The presence of such strong personalities would be hard in any situation, but was exacerbated by the bureau