To be fair to "the media" when the networks do cover specific incidents such as IED attacks in ways that highlight the sacrifice of individual or units they are often attacked for "only reporting the negatives" - to some extent from their perspective it's a "dammed if you do dammed if you don't" situation.
Myself, I'm pleased that a major network anchor actually got off his butt, out of the studio, out of the Green zone, and put himself at the same kind of risks that US soldiers experience every day - if we want more accurate reporting of what's happening in Iraq, that one way we are going to get it. And I also note that he was taking risks that at lot of elected and unelected US officials who have visited Iraq feel are too great, or that they are too important, to take.
This guy put himself in harm's way to get the story... now lets see if if we will be seeing "first-person" accounts of the superb job the US military did of evacuating and treating the wounded from this attack.
Agree