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The quote which you replied to was an attempt to state that, regardless of whether the reporter is with us or with them - they knew BEFORE they went there what could happen. They believed that what they were going to do was important. To state that the Arab reporter standing near a machine gun nest was "one dumb arab" while "our" reporters are also standing near out troops is a bit much.

I draw no moral equivalence between the reporters who are willfully spewing the Iraqi propaganda and the "free" reporters with our troops (they ARE censored, but mostly for "current intelligence" - not propaganda.)

Most of the reporters in Iraq truely want to be able to report on what's happening - they know they must sign a pact with the devil just for the slight chance that they might actually be able to report something other than propaganda and they do this because they feel that this is important.