She is either dead or someone wishes she was.
Yep, our local news at noon read that statement from the CBS brass the same way, and it was printed on the screen simultaneously - I just kept thinking how strange it was to continually refer to the living correspondent in the past tense.
The scene they showed was in front of what looked like a large house - maybe it was "by the side of the road," but they weren't out on a shoulder of the highway. There was a sand-colored humvee sitting in the front yard (a large yard) that must have been another in the convoy, as it wasn't damaged.
They showed some footage after the bombing, but it was so close-up, in a tight shot on the interior of the vehicle, that you couldn't tell what or where it was.
"They always volunteered for dangerous assignments and were invaluable in our attempt to report the news to the American public."
Attempt to report or distort the news?
WMAL update ten minutes ago -- from Bob Schieffer: "The best we can say is that she is alive. Very critical condition". Sounds as bad or worse than the ABC newsman.
These reporters do not go to Iraq to report the news the the AMerican people. They go to enhance their resumes and make more money and in hopes of having an incestuous enclave of like-minded journalist vote to give them a Peabody or other award. But don't be naive enough to think these journalist are idealistic. They go thinking it cannot happen to them, and when it does, their friends, who happen to control the airwaves, lament their loss publically.