[Tall_Texan]

"Today we've lost two family members," said ABC News correspondent Terry McCarthy. "They are really our eyes and ears in Iraq," he said. "Many places in Baghdad are just too dangerous for foreigners to go now, so we have Iraqi camera crews who very bravely go out ... without them we are blind, we cannot see what's going on."

It sounds like McCarthy is *admitting* that network news crews have no idea what is going on outside their hotels and pressers - as has long been suspected. What reporting comes from American networks, it seems, the conclusion has been drawn first and then fact-finded later rather than the opposite.

It's a shame about these two men but ABC is essentially saying they have no coverage outside the Green Zone without depending on Iraqi journalists.

[Tallguy]

It's a shame about these two men but ABC is essentially saying they have no coverage outside the Green Zone without depending on Iraqi journalists.

I always thought that the longer this war went on, the greater the chance that the insurgents would penetrate the News Media through the use of local "stringers". Imagine if the landings at Normandy were reported by a bunch of Fritz's & Adolph's who were working for Herr Goebbels?

[Tallguy]

It's a shame about these two men but ABC is essentially saying they have no coverage outside the Green Zone without depending on Iraqi journalists.

I always thought that the longer this war went on, the greater the chance that the insurgents would penetrate the News Media through the use of local "stringers". Imagine if the landings at Normandy were reported by a bunch of Fritz's & Adolph's who were working for Herr Goebbels?