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War Coverage At 4

By Brian Montopoli

March 19, 2007 / 12:38 PM EDT / CBS News

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"I think that the networks, they are fed up with the massive bombs. They don't want to see things going bang anymore. What troubles me is that -- what troubles me most personally is when I see children hurt and those are the stories that you really want to get on the air and it really bothers me that we can't."

--CBS correspondent Allen Pizzey on CNN's "Reliable Sources." It has been four years since President Bush announced the start of the Iraq war.

BONUS QUOTE: "Oh, I think absolutely. I think every organization, the war is expensive to cover. It is dangerous as you see from my colleagues, but for reporters…the most important story out there is that you have young soldiers, young people joining the military, wanting to serve their country and they die bleeding out in a back alley of Baghdad somewhere. That's a story that has to be told that none of us can get tired of."

--CNN's Barbara Starr, asked on the same broadcast if news executives are tired of the war.