The media on the other hand took up his report, which fits their agenda that Iraq is a mess and the US is losing... Bush is a failure... blah blah blah... which again helps Al-Qaeda's agenda. If you think that fits their "agenda", wouldn't " the U.S. military said its soldiers had carried out a controlled explosion in Ramadi, also near a soccer field, that slightly wounded 30 people, including nine children." have been even better for them.
I would be very glad to find out that no one was killed but I would not expect the local reaction to the story to be positive.
The media's agenda is to use a body count to "prove" US failure. They liked the 18 children killed because while it would hurt Al-Qaeda's propaganda in that it killed innocent children it makes them immortal to a point that the US can't defeat them according to the MSM.