He was outside the wire. He was voluntarily in a combat zone. I have to give him credit for his commitment to his profession and his perceived reportorial duties.
As opposed to other well-known, MSM "reporters" who bunker themselves in the Palestine Hotel, or who sweat and shiver here in the States, terrified that they might be asked to stop writing anti-Bush polemics and to go to Iraq as an embed (are you listening, Mr. Dee Dee Myers?).
There have been many reporters and photographers in the field that would pretend to take factual aspects of what happened but once they got to the copy and paste shop could distort facts to the point of disbelief. I hope he wasn't one of those but????