That Arab woman journalist from Al-Arabia was actually out at Samarra - when she was killed. There have been a record number of journalists killed in Iraq, so the poor security situation is one reason for "bar-room" reporting.
The woman who was killed worked for al-Araybia, not the liberal U.S. media.
There is no excuse for the distorted, blatantly biased reporting coming out of Iraq by the Alpahbet/Reuters/CNN/AP/slanted print media crowd.
I don't go gallivanting around Iraq on my own whim either, but I see and hear enough here to know that what they report is a lot of slanted BS.