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Remember that dinner where Brokaw defended Rather? Well, something else happended then. A major tribute to David Bloom. I believe that the NBC experience of embedded reporting, combined with the tragic death of David Bloom, gave some in the NBC newsroom a certain respect for the military. When they saw NYT/CBS lying about an event that their own embedded reporters had witnessed, their honor and memory of Bloom could not let it stand. At the October 4th Radio-Television News Directors Association Awards dinner Tom Brokaw was the keynote speaker at an event that gave heavy honors and a Murrow award...

  ‘Bloom Building’ honors civilian news veteran at Fort Lee By Jamie L. Carson A wall display highlighting the late David Bloom is located in the entranceway of the Fort Lee Public Affairs Office. The display includes photos of Bloom reporting in the Iraq and quotes about Bloom from his family, friends and colleagues. Sgt. Jorge Gomez FORT LEE, Va. (Army News Service March 26, 2004) -- From the comfort of their homes, millions of Americans watched the war in Iraq through the eyes of David Bloom, veteran NBC news correspondent. Traveling on top of his creation, the "Bloom...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush poked fun at his staff, his Democratic challenger and himself Wednesday night at a black-tie dinner where he hobnobbed with the news media. Bush put on a slide show, calling it the "White House Election-Year Album" at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association 60th annual dinner, showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses. There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere," he said. There was Vice President Dick Cheney, a frequent butt of gentle Bush ribbing, holding his...

Military Vaccine Woes Mount HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 10, 2003 (Photo: CBS/AP) "It's harder to live with these illnesses than if I was shot in combat." Former Navy Nurse Julia Dyckman Dr. Nass' letter to JAMA criticizing military study JAMA's rejection letter to Dr. Nass">Army immunologist letter admitting problems in care for a soldier -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Military Vaccine Woes MountMore Smallpox Vaccine ConcernsQuestions Mount Over Anthrax Shots -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LinksNational Gulf War Resource Center (CBS) Dennis Drew was prepared to fight the enemy in Iraq, but never got the chance. After his military vaccinations, his immune system completely unraveled. "Severe pneumonia and myocarditis,...

Mystery blood clots kill U.S. troops Monday 06-Oct-2003 8:58PM Story from United Press International Copyright 2003 by United Press International (via ClariNet) WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Several U.S. soldiers in the Iraqi war died from sudden illnesses and a United Press International probe shows those were triggered by unexplained blood clots. The Pentagon says blood clots caused two soldiers to collapse and die. At least eight other soldiers have also collapsed and died from what the military has described as non-combat-related causes. NBC reporter David Bloom also died of a blood clot in his lung after collapsing near Baghdad....

Miramar-based Maritime Telecommunications Network, which earlier this year built for NBC the satellite-based mobile communications platform widely known as the "Bloommobile," today announced the special-purpose truck is helping the NBC network in its live coverage of Hurricane Isabel. MTN, which makes satellite-based communications, networking and other services for the cruise and offshore oil and gas industries, designed the vehicle NBC reporter David Bloom used to broadcast live reports from the war zone in Iraq before his death there April 6. "NBC's use of the Bloommobile further confirms the versatility and value of this unique satellite-based mobile communications platform," said David...

Is the death of NBC News correspondent David Bloom during Operation Iraqi Freedom the result of a vaccination he received before the war? That question is being raised in connection with a CBS News report which says the federal government is doing a sudden about-face and will let states stop administering the high-risk smallpox shot. David Bloom The 39-year-old Bloom, who was embedded with the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad and co-anchor of the ''Today'' show weekend editions, died of an apparent blood clot several weeks after getting both the smallpox and anthrax vaccines. In the days before...

Washington -- Last Saturday, after awakening at 5:00 a.m. in Virginia's Shenandoah Mountains to hunt wild turkey, I showered and dressed in black tie for one of my favorite Washington evenings, the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. If I did not see any turkeys during the matutinal hunt, I was guaranteed to see them in abundance during the vespertine melee that this distinguished gathering has become. In all of New York there is nothing quite like it, though you can find an approximation of it on the Virginia countryside. I have in mind the county fair, at least the county...

Sources say NBC News President 'bawled out' MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield in his office after she critized the networks war coverage..Sources said Banfield, in effect, not to do it again.'

BAGHDAD, Iraq - At a parade ground where Saddam Hussein once reviewed his troops, American soldiers gathered Saturday to remember and shed tears for eight comrades and three journalists who died during the war. "We are standing at the heart of a regime that struck fear into the hearts of the people," said Col. David Perkins of Keene, N.H., commanding officer of the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade. "There are things worth dying for," he said. "Freedom is one of those things." At the center of the ceremony were eight M-16 automatic rifles with bayonets, stuck into a wooden bench....

<p>April 27, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - President Bush skipped the usual jokes last night at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner and instead paid warm tribute to two journalists who died in Iraq: columnist Michael Kelly and NBC's David Bloom.</p>

It was early morning, Iraqi time. Crouched in a modified tank, NBC News correspondent David Bloom picked up his phone and played back his messages. One was from Jim Lane, a New York financier and Wilberforce Forum advisory board member. The two were sharing a daily, long-distance devotional time using Oswald Chambers's classic, My Utmost for His Highest. Lane read the message for April 5, based on Matthew 25: "Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being can now get through into the very presence of God." Moments later, Bloom climbed out of the tank, took...

Does anybody know how I could get a video of David Bloom's funeral service? He was my favorite embedded reporter, and I wasn't able to see the funeral live.

On the night before he died of a pulmonary embolism, David Bloom sent his beloved wife, Melanie, an e-mail that eerily foreshadowed his death. At his funeral Wednesday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, his brother John read that prophetic message, one that defined David Bloom and showed clearly what values propelled him in his brief life. "I hope and pray all my guys get out of this in one piece," Bloom wrote. "But I'll tell you, Mel, I am at peace. Here I am, supposedly at the peak of professional success, but I could, frankly, care less. It's nothing compared to...

It was early morning, Iraqi time. Crouched in a modified tank, NBC News correspondent David Bloom picked up his phone and played back his messages. One was from Jim Lane, a New York financier and Wilberforce Forum advisory board member. The two were sharing a daily, long-distance devotional time using Oswald Chambers's classic, My Utmost for His Highest. Lane read the message for April 5, based on Matthew 25: "Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being can now get through into the very presence of God."Moments later, Bloom climbed out of the tank, took a...

Thursday, April 17, 2003 David Bloom's Last E-mail Talked of Jesus On the night before he died of a pulmonary embolism, David Bloom sent his beloved wife, Melanie, an e-mail that eerily foreshadowed his death. At his funeral Wednesday in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, his brother John read that prophetic message, one that defined David Bloom and showed clearly what values propelled him in his brief life. "I hope and pray all my guys get out of this in one piece," Bloom wrote. "But I'll tell you, Mel, I am at peace. Here I am, supposedly at the peak of professional...

<p>April 17, 2003 -- HOURS before he was to die in Iraq, David Bloom had a kind of premonition.</p> <p>The sight of battle had changed him, hardened him. The smell of death rattled the perpetually upbeat NBC correspondent in ways he never foresaw.</p>

Journalist Bloom Eulogized at Funeral Melanie Bloom, center, hold hands with her children, as she follows behind the casket of her husband and their father David Bloom, a NBC reporter, after funeral services in New York, Wednesday April 16, 2003. Bloom, 39, the weekend anchor of NBC's ``Today'' and a former White House correspondent, died of an apparent blood clot April 6 while embedded with a military unit in Iraq. (AP Photos/Bebeto Matthews) By DAVID BAUDERAP Television WriterNBC News correspondent David Bloom, who died while covering the war in Iraq, was eulogized at his funeral Wednesday as a modern-day Ernie...

DAVID BLOOM'S LAST E-MAIL [Rod Dreher] NBC reporter David Bloom, who died last week in Iraq, sent a final e-mail to his wife on the eve of his death. It was eerily prescient, almost an epitaph. David was a born-again Christian; a friend of mine who was in a men's prayer and Bible-study group with him says David was passionately devoted to his family and his God. That friend told me David's last e-mail was read aloud in a deeply moving Friday meeting with his prayer partners, at which a number of David's NBC colleagues were present. It was no...

David Bloom (RIP) attended Pitzer College, a member of the Claremont Colleges in California (a consortium, Oxford style, of small leafy liberal arts colleges). I attended Claremont Mckenna. Pitzer is quite well known for being ext. left-wing. Read what Bloom's former professor, Dana Ward, (a notorious leftist) writes about her former student on the Pitzer homepage. David dove into Pitzer knowing that his views were quite different from most the faculty and students. He lived for those types of challenges. Never afraid to be in a minority, always willing to challenge received opinion and never satisfied with pat answers David...

Did anyone just catch this? At the end of O'Reilly, he flashed an address to send donations to David Bloom's family to set up a trust fund for his children. Excuse me, but I find that during the current state of affairs that this is wholly innapropriate. David Bloom died of a heart attack. It's tragic, my heart goes out to this family. But he worked for NBC, probably making some good money, I'm sure he had life insurance benefits, etc. To be asking for money while young men with young families are being killed in the line of duty,...

David Bloom's Last Ride The NBC journalist's death was possibly caused by the hours he spent reporting cramped in an Army vehicle -- just another way war kills   BusinessWeek's Balfour is "embedded" in the 3rd Infantry Division Five short lines to summarize the last day of a man who was, by all measures, in the prime of life. Already known by millions of Americans as a co-host of NBC's Weekend Today show, Bloom's live coverage of the Iraqi war gained him an even wider audience, in large part because of the "Bloom-mobile." He traveled most of the time in...

<p>I never knew David Bloom when he was alive. He was brought to our medical tent at the 703rd Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division (3ID) shortly before 8 a.m. on Apr. 6. Medics were still performing CPR on him when he arrived, but it was already too late. At 8:08 a.m. he was pronounced dead. As I was about to head to the medic station I overheard a soldier phoning in a report, in what I suppose was meant to be military efficiency. But it struck me as chillingly terse. "Report: initial. Enemy involvement: none. Name: Bloom, David. Military unit: civilian. Status: deceased."</p>

Special On David Bloom on MSNBC now.

NEW YORK, March 6 — “Hey, buddy.” That was David Bloom’s all-purpose greeting for anyone who crossed his path. Usually when someone develops a shorthand like that, it’s a cover for not remembering the other person’s name, or not much caring. For David, who used it with even his oldest friends, the effect was the opposite. He was gifted in his ability to establish a human connection almost immediately, which is part of what made him a gifted broadcaster. But it was more than that. He made you feel he was your buddy because he was. He mixed sincerity and...

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- David Bloom, a prominent NBC News journalist who was covering the war in Iraq, died suddenly of a non-combat ailment while on duty.</p> <p>Described as "dedicated, tenacious and talented," the 10-year NBC veteran, who was 39, was traveling with troops about 25 miles south of Baghdad when he suddenly collapsed, according to NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust.</p>

Sun Apr 6, 8:57 AM ET NBC News correspondent David Bloom is shown in this undated handout photo. Bloom, who has been reporting on the war from the Iraqi desert, died from a pulmonary embolism, Sunday, April 6, 2003, the network announced. Bloom was the anchor of the weekend Today show and had been traveling with U.S. troops for several weeks in Iraq He was 39. (AP Photo/NBC News, HO) NEW YORK - NBC News correspondent David Bloom, who has been reporting on the war from the Iraqi desert, collapsed Sunday and died from a blood clot, the network...

NEW YORK, April 6 — David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died Sunday, NBC announced. Bloom, a 39-year-old husband and father of three, was the second American journalist to die in Iraq since the war began. His death was not combat related, according to NBC News. Bloom has reported on many top stories for NBC and served as White House correspondent, ‘Weekend Today’ anchor and field reporter. BLOOM had been co-anchor of the weekend editions of “Today” since March 2000. In his nearly 20-year career, Bloom covered many top stories...

I'm TV deprived, anybody watching MSNBC? Somebody just called and told me he had died, but from a pulmonary embolism. Anybody got news?