The Fourth Estate. We entrust them with so much: providing us with complete and unbiased news of the world, acting as checks on government and corporations, digging up unpleasant facts, telling truth to power, all the while possibly endangering and exposing themselves in the process.

What's it like to carry this weight on your shoulders? To put yourself in harm's way so you can act as the public's eyes and ears, trying to get it right?

Join Ben Arnoldy and Paula B. as they discuss:

* How he got into reporting in general and foreign reporting specifically

* What the scope of his reponsibilities has been

* What it was like being "embedded" with the troops in Iraq

* What sorts of limitations were imposed on him in Iraq

* How he felt about those restrictions

* Why he thinks the Pentagon wanted reporters "embedded"

* What his living conditions were like

* What his relationship with the military was like

* How his editors treated the reports he sent back

* Whether he feels that he got everything right when reporting from Iraq

* What happened when the paper tried to do an investigative report on the Afghan drug trade

* How he feels about the reporting of foreign news to U.S. audiences.