Wounded Journalist an Example for Students

AP ^ | May 30, 8:04 PM EDT | By ALEX DOMINGUEZ

[Jet Jaguar]

BALTIMORE (AP) -- At the private school Kimberly Dozier attended more than two decades ago, students will hear during graduation ceremonies on Sunday about a young woman who decided to make a difference. Randy Stevens, headmaster of the St. Timothy's School in suburban Baltimore, says he plans to make the wounded CBS correspondent and former student part of his commencement address.

[Army MP Retired]

yawn............. every high school in America has a real American hero alumni I would venture - an American Soldier.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Trying to "make a difference" can get you killed in a war zone filled with fanatical, Islamic "freedom fighters."

[Jet Jaguar]

I'm just putting it out there. Not disagreeing with your statement.

[Bahbah]

This woman is badly injured, and I am sorry for that. But what she was doing, for example lionizing Saddam Hussein, was not making the world a better place. Maybe she will have learned something, or maybe she'll do a Fiske and tell us they were right to injure her and kill our soldier. We'll see.

[Army MP Retired]

Of course, my comment was not aimed at you - only at the story. Thanks for sharing it.

[The_Media_never_lie]

The ideal for a journalist is to make the other guy (gal) die reporting for their side.

[Bob Mc]

Odd. There have been suicide bombers killing innocent people on a daily basis for quite some time now. Good people, such as our soldiers, Iraqi police and civilian leaders, citizens doing their democratic duty going to vote. And we get an occasional one liner about it from the MSM.

But as soon as a couple of reporters get killed, it's all of sudden on the world headlines for days.

Arrogant SOBs!

[Bob Mc]

Picked up this tidbit from another FR post:

But here is how reporter Christine Hauser from the New York Times described this incident half way through her story:

"The three members of the CBS team had stepped out of their armored Humvee to accompany troops inspecting a checkpoint manned by the Iraqi Army, a report on the CBS News Web site said today. They were wearing protective glasses, flak vests, and helmets when the bomb went off, killing the two CBS journalists at the scene as well as an American soldier and an Iraqi interpreter."

Notice those last 10 words? "...as well as an American soldier and an Iraqi interpreter."

The treatment of this story smacks of self-indulgence, reeks of the media making the story about THEMSELVES instead of the conflict. And notice that we get no glowing bio of this unnamed American soldier and faceless Iraqi interpreter?

[KSCITYBOY]

First I had heard that a soldier was killed. I guess media people merit more ink.

[Malesherbes]

I wish her a speedy recovery - but working for CBS is not a positive way to "make a difference."

[WorkingClassFilth]

I heartily agree! We should wound thousands of journalists as examples to students...

[Texas Eagle]

No more blood for ink! Bring our journalists home now!

[Dick Vomer]

What about the soldier who died due to the fact they stopped a convoy for a still shot?.....he made a difference.

I guess if you want to be in the propaganda wing of Al-Jazeera or the National Socialist Democratic Workers Party...then by all means become a CBS employee...

if you die...yawn...there's about 30,000 college students/year or more with 2.3 GPA's that can fill your slot to "change the world".

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL!

[Tzimisce]

....an example for American Journalism students or Middle Eastern Terrorist students?

[Little Bill]

The Catholic Prep School I attended, Graduated 1965, had four members serve in Viet Nam, 1965-1970, one KIA, tried to get a memorial, I was a Ahole.

[texten]

Odd. There have been suicide bombers killing innocent people on a daily basis for quite some time now. Good people, such as our soldiers, Iraqi police and civilian leaders, citizens doing their democratic duty going to vote. And we get an occasional one liner about it from the MSM.

You liberal. Things are going just fine over there and anything to the contrary is just MSM bullony. The insurgency is in its last throes. /sarcasm