Here are some cute graphs from the Media Research Center. MRC.org
I care only about the soldiers. The drive by media gets what it deserves for being a bunch of malicious disingenuous assholes.
Posted on 05/29/2006 8:14:56 AM PDT by I still care
CBS/AP) Two London-based members of the CBS News team, veteran cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42, were killed and correspondent Kimberly Dozier, 39, was seriously injured Monday when the Baghdad military unit in which they were imbedded was attacked. They were reporting on patrol with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, when their convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED).
The attack was among a slew of car and roadside bombs left about three dozen people dead before noon Monday, including one explosion that killed 10 people on a bus. Nearly all the attacks occurred in Baghdad.
Dozier and her crew are among the latest American television journalists to become casualties in Iraq. Former ABC News "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt suffered severe injuries in a roadside bombing in Iraq Jan. 29, 2006. Woodruff is still recovering from serious head injuries and broken bones. Cameraman Vogt has returned home to France for more rehab.
On April 6, 2003, David Bloom, 39, an American journalist for NBC television, embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq died from an apparent blood clot near Baghdad.
All over the region, explosions began just after dawn, with one roadside bomb killing 10 people and injuring another 12 who worked for an Iranian organization opposed to the regime in Iran, police said.
The explosions began just after dawn, with one roadside bomb killing 10 people and injuring another 12 who worked for an Iranian organization opposed to the regime in Iran, police said.
A car bomb parked near Baghdad's main Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 25, said Saif al-Janabi, director of Noaman hospital. It exploded at noon in north Baghdad's Azamiyah neighborhood and was so powerful it vaporized the vehicle. Rescue crews and Iraqi army soldiers were carrying stretchers toward waiting ambulances, Associated Press TV footage showed.
A bomb planted in a parked minivan killed at least seven and injured at least 20 when it exploded at the entrance to an open-air market selling secondhand clothes in the northern Baghdad suburb of Kazimiyah.
Another parked car bomb exploded near Ibin al-Haitham college in Azamiyah, also in northern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding at least five others - including four Iraqi soldiers, police Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi said.
In Baghdad's Tahariyat Square, a parked car bomb targeting an American convoy killed one civilian and injured nine , police Lt. Col. Abbas Mohammed Salman said. It was not known if there were any U.S. casualties, but at least one Humvee was seen on fire.
A second bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol near the square killed one and wounded 10 - including four police.
In other attacks, a roadside bomb killed two police officer and wounded three others in downtown Baghdad's Karradah district, while one man was killed and six were injured when a bomb hidden in a minivan used as a bus exploded.
Another roadside bomb killed two police officer and wounded three others in downtown Baghdad's Karradah district, while one man was killed and six were injured when a bomb hidden in a minivan used as a bus exploded.
The day's most serious attack targeted a public bus near Khalis, 50 miles north of Baghdad in Diyala province, an area notorious for such attacks, provincial police said.
All the dead were workers at the Ashraf base of the Mujahedeen Khalk, or MEK, which opposes Iran's regime. The group, made up of Iranian dissidents living in Iraq, said the dead were Iraqi workers heading to their camp.
The blast pushed in the side of the white public bus and peppered its blackened side with shrapnel holes. The bus, later inspected by U.S. Army troops, was streaked in blood, Associated Press TV footage showed.
"We were transporting the workers from Baqouba to the Mujahedeen Khalk when the roadside bomb exploded and killed all these people," one man who was on the bus told AP TV.
CBS News Team Hit in Baghdad
It was an Iraqi Police checkpoint that the patrol was checking in on. They had their Iraqi interpreter with them. The AP story is much more accurate than the cBS one.
While this is tragic we should remember that the news crews do not have to be there. Our military can't quit or refuse to go. It's still a shame though.
Here are some cute graphs from the Media Research Center. MRC.org
I care only about the soldiers. The drive by media gets what it deserves for being a bunch of malicious disingenuous assholes.
How?!!! By murdering their families?! Or by letting his sons rape their daughters?
Yes, I began to get the impression that although she is alive, she may never be a reporter again.
Speaking of that, I haven't heard anything about Woodruff in a very long time. For a while, his look-alike (very handsome) brother would appear on GMA and give updates. I suppose it was much worse than they let on, if he's needing this much rehab and therapy. Or, maybe I've just missed any of the reports.
I generally won't diss foreign correspondents, since they're doing what I wanted to do from the time I was age 4 until I got a taste of what it might entail, in college, and I decided I liked desk jockeying better. My pain threshold is too low.
Prayers up for Ms Dozier and her family and for all those in Iraq at present, as well as those who love and care for them.
I need to do this just to show people I am a compassionate conservative.
She and I have exchanged some emails before; she seemed like a nice person and actually did occassionally do some GOOD stories about Iraq instead of only doing negative pieces 24/7. Prayers for her recovery and for the families of the crew who were killed.
Prayers up for Paul and James' family and Kimberly's recovery.
I have wanted to be a foreign correspondent myself since a little kid, but having a girlfriend and realizing how incredibly difficult it is to make it really has put me off from that idea, though I still have a burning in my blood to be a journalist despite no holidays hardly whatsoever, long hours, and pay that makes teachers look rich.
I actually wrote back and forth a little bit with Dozier via email, and she loved her job...she had a passion for it. I just pray she recovers.
Dozier's reporting on Iraq was better than average, some very good stories on reconstruction efforts, in fact. Some bad stories/lots of doom and gloom, but overall, better than average. Regardless, she knew how to tell a story well, even if it was not always as fair as it could have been.
Regardless of what you think of a reporter personally, any American injuries deserve your thoughts and prayers.
Reminds me of a joke about Lawyers.
"What is the difference between a Lab Rat and a Lawyer? There are some things you just cant get a Lab Rat to do.
Their self righteous liberal agenda is far more important than being an American so they don't get the patriotic endorsement you seem to want them to have.
Am I praying for them the same way I might pray for my enemies like Al Qaeda? That they will stop their terrorism and let people live in peace?
If that is what people are asking for than it should be more clear. Count me in if that is how I am to pray?
If it's in your blood, nothing can stop you. Note also that nearly all the (male) traveling journalists are married and have families, so it's not impossible.
My sticking point was that even though I was a newshound, I wanted to do "soft" stories (I'm female) - more in-depth features and lots of up close and personal reporting on everyday people. I wanted there to be more "good news" going out to the world. As we know, though, "good news is not news."
How it worked out for me was going to the corporate side. You can do films and documentaries, magazine-type features, put on events, do charitable work--and get all the international travel you want, with a regular schedule and a home to come to.
The more you love what you do, the better you are at it. It's also true that if you do what you love, the money will come. Eventually.
I was doing two things I loved when the rug got pulled out from under me, my whole world collapsed and I haven't been the same person since. A writer has to write and a workhorse has to work - I hope I can get back to doing one or the other in the future.
Follow your heart and one day, you will wake up and say, "Wow, am I really here, doing this? Meeting my heroes, spending time with such interesting people--and someone is also paying me for this? Wow."
Prayers Bump.
I'm seeing this way after you posted it, but right on my FReeper brother! That's the same crap these lefties handed to my VN vet husband when he looked for work. I don't forget, and God help me for having no feelings about these journalists, I'd like to hand it right back to the lot of them.
Kimberly was taken to Landstuhl overnight, so she is in the better hospital now.
All they said this morning on the overnight news was that doctors removed shrapnel from her head, but that her most serious injuries are to her lower body.
And I suppose we will end up wasting military resources treating these journalists.
Perhaps I'm a tad cold-hearted, but I have zero sympathy for this MSM bimbo and her cohorts. As I've said in another thread, my prayers are reserved for the brave U.S. soldiers and their families.
Maybe if this story caught me when I was in a better mood...
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