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CNN just cant except that FOX News is a legitimate media outlet and refuses to acknowledge that fellow Journalists have been abducted by terrorists.

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian gunmen kidnapped two foreign journalists working for the Fox News television channel in Gaza on Monday, a witness said. The witness, a Palestinian who worked with the two journalists, said one of them, a producer, was an American, and the other, whose nationality he did not know, was a cameraman. The Fox News bureau in Jerusalem said it was checking the report. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the abduction. The witness said two vehicles blocked the journalist's transmission truck in the center of Gaza City and a masked man put a gun to...

Unlike many of her colleagues, Katie Couric won’t be venturing to the war-torn Middle East after she takes over the anchor chair on "CBS Evening News” in September. "I think the situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that’s something I won’t be doing,” she told NBC’s Access Hollywood. That gave Access Hollywood a chance to crow that NBC’s Martin Fletcher was not only in Israel, but he and his crew nearly became battle casualties. "A rocket fell 100 yards in front of us, straight in our line of driving,” Fletcher said. "Five seconds...

Mere miles from St. Tropez, where celebrities like Paris Hilton, Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock were recently spotted enjoying the sand and sun, the world has erupted into a very frightening place. And once again, American news correspondents are braving life-threatening dangers to bring viewers and readers the story of the escalating violence in Israel's war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.NBC's Martin Fletcher is in Israel, where he and his crew came within seconds of becoming war casualties."A rocket fell 100 yards in front of us, straight in our line of driving," Fletcher told Access Hollywood. "Five seconds...

The American Society of Professional Journalists today said it would offer major news organizations like CNN and the New York Times a “core values” training course in the wake of an incident in Haditha, Iraq. The journalist training comes as the Pentagon offers its own brand of values reinforcement for U.S. troops. “We’re just going to cover the basics,” said an unnamed trainer, “We’ll reinforce the bedrock values that 99.9 percent of journalists already live by, but may not always remember under the stress, fear and isolation of war.” The following is a partial list of topics from the “core...

A CBS spokeswoman says correspondent Kimberly Dozier has undergone two surgeries since being injured in a car bombing Monday in Iraq. Doctors have removed shrapnel from her head, but they say the most series injuries are to her lower body. Dozier is being treated in Germany. The blast in Baghdad killed British cameraman Paul Douglas and freelance soundman James Brolan. Military officials say Dozier will be treated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, which is the U.S. military's largest overseas hospital. CBS says all three journalists were riding in an armored humvee and are believed to have been wearing protective...

Michael Ware, the TIME magazine Baghdad bureau chief who gained renown for in-depth coverage of the insurgency in Iraq, will join CNN as a correspondent based in Baghdad, it was announced today by Tony Maddox, senior vice president of international newsgathering operations. A frequent guest to CNN over the last five years, Ware becomes a full-time international correspondent providing news reports and analysis across all CNN networks. On CNN/U.S., Ware will be a regular contributor to Anderson Cooper 360° as well as appearing on other programs. “Michael is one of the most accomplished correspondents working in Iraq. His exclusive stories...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - CBS News said Monday that two of its crew members were killed in an attack on a U.S. military unit in Iraq. Correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously wounded, the network said. The network identified the dead as cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan. The three journalists were embedded with a team from the Fourth Infantry Division when the convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device on Monday, CBS said.

CBS/AP) Two London-based members of the CBS News team, veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed and correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured Monday when the Baghdad military unit in which they were imbedded was attacked. They were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED). The attack was among a slew of car and roadside bombs left about three dozen people dead before noon Monday, including one explosion that killed 10 people on a bus. Nearly all the...

"Tainted" Embeds and the role of MilBloggers One of the big issues at the MiBlogger Conference was, of course, bias in the media. While there are those who will contest such claims, it seems pretty clear to Murdoc that (at the very least) the mainstream media suffers from gross ignorance of military strategy, tactics, and history. This, of course, is gross generalization, and there are exceptions to the rule. But the low number of exceptions do a lot to prove said rule. The mainstream media suffers from gross ignorance of military strategy, tactics, and history.The third panel at the conference,...

    Is the Press Covering the Iraq War On the Cheap? The media needs to send more "troops" to cover the war and provide much-needed coverage. What's stopping them? Fear of violence, certainly, but also limits on training and insurance. Joe Galloway also notes the military's "growing resistance" to embeds. By Bruce Kesler (April 25, 2006) -- Journalists are reviled by many for alleged negativism and over-focus on bad news in Iraq. Or perhaps the problem is: Their employers are just trying to do it on the cheap. Ironically, the same media that criticizes the U.S. for sending too...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Documentary filmmaker Rich Fitoussi never liked getting into the Canadian army's much-heralded, much-loved light armoured vehicle - LAV III - or its cousin the Bison armoured car. Even though the largely windowless metal cocoon is meant to keep him and hundreds of dust-covered soldiers whose lives he chronicled safe, it was always a nerve-wracking, uncomfortable experience. Never more so than Saturday, as the well-travelled Toronto-native found himself hunkered down inside a Bison when suspected Taliban militants unleashed their deadly fury on a Canadian convoy, killing four soldiers. "I feel a little bit guilty," said Fitoussi, 32,...

More journalists and media staffers have been killed during the Iraq war than during any conflict since World War II, Reporters Without Borders said Monday, the third anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. A total of 84 reporters and media staffers have been killed in the Iraq war - including eight this year - according to a report by the Paris-based media advocacy group. That was more than the 63 journalists killed during 22 years of conflict in Vietnam, the statement said. The Iraq war death toll also has exceeded the number of journalists and staffers killed during conflicts...

Published: March 16, 2006 11:45 AM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. After 41 years on the military beat, covering stories from Fort Riley, Kan. to Vietnam and Iraq, Joe Galloway says he is taking a permanent leave. Come June 1, the 64-year-old scribe will give up his desk at Knight Ridder’s D.C. bureau and settle permanently in the bayfront cottage he owns just north of Corpus Christi, Tex. “I consider myself the luckiest guy in the world to have survived against the odds, to have had the experiences, the stories, the people that this profession has given me,” Galloway said this week...

Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic FEBRUARY 2--In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps. In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April. Once again the "smarter", more "civilized", and more "tolerant" MSM shows us their true stripes. TRUTH is...

Threats to media cloud American view of Iraq By Claudia ParsonsSun Jan 22, 1:37 PM ET Kidnapping is the biggest nightmare of every Western journalist in Iraq but both foreign and Iraqi reporters face many other obstacles that obscure the U.S. public's understanding of the war. Jill Carroll, an American freelance journalist missing in Iraq, was the 36th reporter to be kidnapped since April 2004, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Six of them have been killed. "This has been our No. 1 threat and our worst nightmare for almost two years," Jackie Spinner, a Washington Post...

Iraq has been the deadliest place for journalists in 2005, accounting for 22 of the 47 journalists killed worldwide, a report says. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says more than three-quarters of the journalists killed worldwide have been murdered to silence or punish them. It has said the total killed was down from 57 in 2004, of which two-thirds were murders, but is still well above the annual average of 34 deaths in the last 10 years. Executive director Ann Cooper says Iraq has become the deadliest conflict for the media in the CPJ's 24-year history, with a total...

While most people were absorbed in the Miers withdrawal and the bogus Plame case, the Associated Press pulled another fast one on the public. The Associated Press held a Managing Editors Conference in San Jose CA. As usual, the coverage of Iraq was a major part of the conference. The Associated Press came under fire in August after newspaper editors questioned the negativity of the Iraq coverage. The public was putting the pressure on the editors to print stories about the “good news” in Iraq. The AP came up with excuses for the biased coverage – too dangerous for reporters,...

A panel of journalists at the Associated Press Managing Editors conference spoke about difficulties in Iraq, in what amounted to a blame the administration and the failure to provide security for their one-sided portrayals of Iraq. The AP article by Michael Warren makes it sound like journalists are the victims, and they are chomping at the bit to cover good news and progress, but security has prevented them. I would concede that security in some areas may limit media access, but let's keep in mind that the primary purpose of this conflict is not to accomodate the media, and plenty...

The Palestine and Sheraton hotels were the world's windows on Baghdad during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Television reporters stood on rooftops of the side-by-side hotels for their live shots, using a nearby blue-domed mosque in Firdous Square as a backdrop. Photographers took pictures of smoldering palaces from the hotels' upper floors. And Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf gained international fame for his absurd claims of Iraqi military victories - all delivered from a Palestine Hotel banquet room. The Palestine was shelled on April 8, 2003, by a U.S. tank from across the Tigris River. Soldiers said they believed...