Posted on 01/29/2006 5:25:40 AM PST by ARealMothersSonForever
Bob Woodward and photographer injured in IED attack.
Key Battleground in Iraq War is the U.S. Media; Troops Attack Media Misreporting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534061/posts
Thank you for your service.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Journalists are like FReepers, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, etc. They don't all think and act alike.
"Yes I believe that the soldiers today still distrust the media."
I don't believe in that statement as an absolute, just as I don't believe "the MSM" is a monolith.
Exactly. And just like Freepers, this guy has a family who probably worried about his safety and well-being just like the rest of us who have family and or friends serving over there.
"....with the Iraqis in the lead vehicle with outside the hatches is even more admirable."
Or perhaps just dumb, considering that the "freedom fighters" DO NOT want press reports that show that the Iraqi Army is beginning to take the lead.....the faces, camera and microphone on top of their lead vehicle was just plain stupid, esp when the "freedom-fighters" had no way to know that the reporter regularly bashes the war and CINC.
Woodruff was sent by ABC to Iraq to bash the President before, during and after the State of the Union address on Tuesday. Looks like ABC's plot to undermine the President's speech went off track.
Where did you read that?
Specifically where you say he was sent to Iraq by ABC to bash the president and his SOU address?
They should have send Woodruff to a "Palestinian" hospital.
ABC stated that Woodruff was originally slated to cover the SOTU speech from "Palestine", but news execs killed the plan after Hamas won the elections. So they decided to send Woodruff to Iraq at the last minute and rushed him out there so he could provide an "Iraqi perspective" to the speech.
I don't watch ABC News but I'm sure he and his cameraman are decent fellows.
"Listing of Bob Woodruff's biased reporting."
Ya know, I don't care. When the IED went off, they were just wounded Americans.
It really does not matter what level of personal armor they had on. If you are going to get hit, you get hit. If it happens to be your time to die; you die. Unfortunately, it was their time to get hit. We do not yet know if they will make a complete recovery. It would be appropriate to consider the pain and grief that their families and loved ones feel. I believe that prayer and compassion changes peoples lives, and has altered the course of mankind. And these, combined with faith, are the only means of defeating the common enemy of mankind.
Yes, I agree. While I wish none of them ill as regards their physical health and well-being, I flat out do not care about them, either.
In my opinion, the defeatist, seditious, Left-wing reporting by American and European media gives aide, comfort and encouragement to the terrorists/"insurgents." Who knows how many of our troops have died thanks to Leftist reporters all but begging the bad guys to keep on keeping on. So I am disinterested when any reporters get their tushes in trouble.
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