Foreign reporting can be depressingly narrow

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“Out in the great wide world, foreign reporting can be depressingly narrow, especially in the post-9/11 climate. Sometimes it seems as if there are only two possible subjects for stories: people we should fear and people we should pity. But those aren’t the individuals I met while living abroad.”

–Peter Hessler, Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (2013)

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