Must Journos Soldier On?

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Soldiers are not supposed to think and mull over war and death. Their job is to shoot when ordered so. If soldiers get philosophical, perhaps all wars will be lost. Worse still, all thinking soldiers will perhaps be the first to be shoved into body bags. And that is not what army training is all about. It is about survival and victory. No soldier's ever gone to war thinking in his head that he will lose the war he is heading for. In some ways, journalists - no matter how small or big a story they are working on - are a little like soldiers themselves. Their lives are tough, jobs demanding, deadlines and results sacrosanct and mostly the boss's word has to be followed. So there is no missing a story. Like there is no missing a shot. There is no room for lame excuses like there is no....