washingtonpost.com Suspended N.Y. Times Reporter Says He'll QuitRick Bragg Decries 'Poisonous Atmosphere' By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff WriterTuesday, May 27, 2003; Page C01 Month after month, year after year, Rick Bragg said, his mission was to "go get the dateline," even when that meant leaning heavily on the reporting of others. "My job was to ride the airplane and sleep in the hotel," the New York Times correspondent said yesterday from his New Orleans home. "I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and...
