The Guts of the Story

Richard Sennott courtesy of the Star Tribune

Star Tribune photographer Richard "Shooter" Sennott and reporter Paul McEnroe on the road to Kirkuk in northern Iraq

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I heard a reporter, oddly enough from the New York Times, talking on television. He talked about how he had become addicted to this kind of journalism. I knew this guy from '91. And I thought, "What a fraud you are to be saying that." I mean, you're participating in this public exercise of self-flagellation and remorse.

I'm not saying that when you come home you have to be moping around and be so self-absorbed and contemplative that you come off as this deep in thought, always worried journalist. You gotta learn to keep going and live, too. But there has to be a balance. You have to be honest and you have to find a balance, or you will never function.