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23 April 2009 2:39 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news

While all major broadcast and cable news networks have cut back on coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan, CBS and NBC are reportedly in talks to set up a joint operation in Kabul that would allow them to share such items as housing and security, according to the New York Observer. It quoted CBS News Senior Vice President Paul Friedman as saying that talks about cost-sharing costs between the two networks have been ongoing since last fall. Doing so, he said, would allow him to "get our own people in there." Last year CBS correspondent Lara Logan, who has frequently reported from Afghanistan and Iraq, said that the budget issues for the network were "terrible." In an interview with the New York Times, Logan said, "We can't afford to maintain operations in Iraq and Afghanistan at the same time. ... It's so expensive and the security risks are so great that it's prohibitive."

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1 article from 2009