How do you write well about a subject when you already know what you think about it?
Ed Burns and David Simon, the writers of The Wire, have written a new series, Generation Kill, about the Iraq war. It's based on Rolling Stone journalist Evan Wright's bestselling book about Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Burns is resolutely anti-war, but he tells the New Statesman,
'If you start empathising with the characters you'll find they do things that conflict with your ideology. That is good storytelling. It unsettles you.'
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SpaceX is gearing up for the fifth launch of its massive Starship rocket,
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