Tenuous Grip! (Continued)

Since I last wrote I have since spoken to the Public Affairs Officer who told me that he had seen the same article in the New York Times and wrote them, politely asked how the reporter could claim to know much of anything about Baqubah, as he's never come here, and then invited him to see the town and talk to us. Apparently, absentee reporting, ala Jayson Blair, has yet to be stamped out at the Times.