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Here is a video report from CBS News on the death of an American soldier in Afghanistan, and also saying August has become the deadliest month of the war in Afghanistan. Harry Smith also reported that CBS News Correspondent Cami McCormick was seriously injured in the same attack that killed the U.S. Soldier. She underwent surgery and is now in stable condition. . . . . (Watch Video)

KABUL — A roadside bombing has wounded two Associated Press journalists embedded with the U.S. military in southern Afghanistan. Photographer Emilio Morenatti and AP Television News videographer Andi Jatmiko were traveling with the military when their vehicle was struck by the bomb Tuesday. Both were immediately taken to a military hospital in Kandahar. Jatmiko suffered leg injuries and two broken ribs. Morenatti, badly wounded in the leg, underwent an operation that resulted in the loss of his foot.

Samuel Wurzelbacher, also known as 'Joe the Plumber,' is in Israel working as a rookie war correspondent, where he said Sunday that he believes journalists should be abolished from reporting from w...

Reuters footage released on Wednesday shows the final moments of agency cameraman Fadel Shana as he films an IDF tank firing, moments before apparently being hit by the shell. Subsequent footage shows the Reuters jeep on fire, and Shana's body lying next to it. Shana's jeep was marked "press" and witnesses said the cameraman was wearing an identifying flak jacket. Reuters Editor-in-Chief David Schlesinger has called for an investigation of Wednesday's incident.

CBS sending Couric to Iraq 'Evening News' anchor sets Mideast trip By MICHAEL LEARMONTH Get ready for Katie Couric -- Phase II. One year after Couric jumped from NBC's "Today" to CBS in a big-money talent deal, the "Evening News" anchor is embarking on a high-risk tour of Iraq and Syria to revive the broadcast. Announcement comes just days after an Iraqi translator working for CBS was killed in Baghdad. CBS said Monday the translator had been found dead following his abduction just hours after leaving work at CBS News' Baghdad bureau. Couric has never been to Iraq, and she...

As the new season of HBO's "Real Time" began Friday night, I watched with great trepidation, especially given host Bill Maher's disgraceful special on that network back in July wherein he spent virtually two-thirds of the program bashing President Bush and anyone with an "R" next to his/her name. With that in mind, my stomach started turning during his opening monologue as he made joke after joke about our president. I was put in further unease as he introduced his first guest, New York Times correspondent Damien Cave, currently in Baghdad, who seemed likely invited on to speak the liberal...

Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Ernie Pyle's Corona Jo Stafford & Her V-Disc Play Boys ~ Blue Moon Jimmy Rushing & Count Basie Orchestra ~ Harvard Blues Marie Greene & Her V-Disc Merry Men w/ Joe Dosh ~ It's Easy To Remember Tony Pastor & His Orchestra ~ Makin' Whoopee Stan Kenton & His Orchestra ~ Southern Scandal Pyle wrote this column nearly a year before the United States entered World War II. It describes the awe he...

As a veteran journalist who has been in countless war zones around the world (especially the Middle East) as an NBC network correspondent, it pains me to see what passes for accurate coverage in the early stages of a conflict like the one between Israel and Hezbollah. Because almost none of the American television networks have a vast stable of experienced reporters any longer who understand the region, they employ the old "parachute them in" philosophy, i.e. dispatching perfectly good -- and frequently very young -- journalists, few of whom have any experience in covering this story and don’t stand...

Catherine Leroy, the French-born photojournalist whose stark images of battle helped tell the story of the Vietnam War in the pages of Life magazine and other publications, has died. She was 60. Leroy died of cancer early Saturday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said the attending physician, Dr. Jerome Helman. Leroy was 21 years old in 1966 when she took a one-way ticket to Saigon to document American troops in Vietnam. A year later she became the only accredited journalist to participate in a combat parachute jump, joining the 173rd Airborne in Operation Junction City. In 1968,...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Kidnapped U.S. journalist Jill Carroll has appeared in a new video on Al-Jazeera. In it, she's weeping and appealing for the release of women Iraqi prisoners. Last week, five Iraqi women were freed from U.S. custody. U.S. officials said the release had nothing to do with the demands by Carroll's kidnappers that the U.S. release Iraqi women. No sound was aired with the video. But Al-Jazeera said she appealed for the release of women Iraqi prisoners. She's visibly crying in the video, and is wearing a conservative Islamic veil.

NEW YORK (AP) - 0130dvs-woodruff-update ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, seriously hurt by a roadside bomb in Iraq, has shown signs of improvement and may be airlifted to the United States as soon as Tuesday, the network's news president said Monday. A hospital official said body armor likely saved the journalist's life. Cameraman Doug Vogt, also hurt in the explosion, is in better shape than Woodruff but doctors were pleased with how both handled the transfer to a U.S. military base in Germany, said ABC News President David Westin. "We have a long way to go," Westin said. "But it...

Bob Woodruff was in Baghdad for ABC reporting the good news that the Bush administration complains is ignored by the news media, and he ended up as a glaring illustration of the bad news. Mr. Woodruff, the newly named co-anchor of "World News Tonight," spent Friday chatting with friendly Iraqis on the street and slurped ice cream at a popular Baghdad shop to show how some in Iraq are seeking a semblance of normalcy. Yesterday he and an ABC cameraman, Doug Vogt, were badly injured while traveling in a routine convoy with Iraqi military forces who are being trained to...

NEW YORK (AP) - 0129dv-woodruff-update ABC "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday when the Iraqi Army vehicle they were traveling in was attacked with an explosive device. Both journalists suffered head injuries, and Woodruff also has broken bones. They were in stable condition following surgery at a U.S. military hospital in Iraq, and were being evacuated to medical facilities in Germany, ABC News President David Westin said Sunday night. "We take this as good news, but the next few days will be critical," Westin said. Woodruff and Doug Vogt, an award-winning cameraman, were...

Bob Woodward and photographer injured in IED attack.

The abduction of a Christian Science Monitor reporter in Iraq on Saturday was not disclosed by major U.S. media outlets for nearly two days after the Monitor requested that the incident, and the reporter's name and affiliation, be withheld. A translator was killed in the incident and the reporter, now identified by the Monitor as Jill Carroll, is still being held. Numerous foreign news outlets and several leading wire services disclosed the incident--and in a few cases, the reporter's name. Such stories did not appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and other U.S. papers...

American Journalist Found Dead in Iraq 08/03 12:48a CDT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) An American freelance journalist was found dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday. Police said Steven Vincent had been shot multiple times after he and his Iraqi translator were abducted at gunpoint hours earlier. "I can confirm to you that officials in Basra have recovered the body of journalist Steven Vincent," said embassy spokesman Pete Mitchell. "The U.S. Embassy is working with British military and local Iraqi officials in Basra to determine who is responsible for the death of this journalist. Our...

One of the most remarkable stories of the Iraq war appears today at the online magazine Salon, written by its longtime foreign correspondent Phillip Robertson. Amazingly, he managed this month to track down the American sniper who apparently shot and killed Knight Ridder correspondent Yasser Salihee, 33, on June 24. The article, "The Victim and the Killer," chronicles this search, and lengthy exchanges between Robertson and the sniper, described only as "Joe." E&P has covered the Salihee incident from the start, first with a news report, then a moving tribute to him written by Knight Ridder's Baghdad chief Hannah Allam,...

Times Correspondent Mark Fineman Dies in Baghdad By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON – Mark Fineman, a veteran Los Angeles Times correspondent, died today, apparently of a heart attack while waiting to conduct an interview in Baghdad. He was 51 years old. Fineman and a Times colleague, Alissa J. Rubin, were at the office of the Iraqi Governing Council when he said he felt ill and collapsed, Times foreign editor Marjorie Miller said. She said he was rushed to a hospital, where U.S. doctors "worked on him for quite a while and weren't able to revive him." Fineman's final...

     NBC's Richard Engel conceded on Tuesday's Today that he rarely gets to report on the heroics of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, but he did this one time because those heroics saved him. Recounting how the Army unit with whom he was traveling came under attack, Engel noted how a soldier "actually stepped right in front of me protecting me with his body and started to return fire at the insurgents. And I just remember thinking that this is one of the small acts of heroism, I think you can say, that I so rarely get a chance to see...

We should all be grateful, once again, to Wretchard at Belmont Club, this time for hammering away at the amazing ability of an AP photographer in Baghdad to take pictures of Iraqi terrorists executing election officials. Wretchard keeps asking--and AP keeps kinda denying but increasingly kinda admitting culpability--how come the photographer was there at the precise moment the killings took place, and managed to take the pictures even though everyone else except the terrorists was running rapidly away from the scene. Lots of good work has also been done by Roger Simon, Power Line, Instapundit and others. It's a big...

Filkins avoids the purple prose, the clichés, the antiwar declarations, and the patriotic riffs that seduce lesser chroniclers of war. His play-by-play requires almost no commentary as he collects the images and testimonials and patches them into his spare narrative. The photos of Ashley Gilbertson (a "he," it turns out) complement Filkins' words, as they capture the unit doing its killing business, rescuing wounded mates, ducking for cover from friendly phosphorous rounds.

This isn't what they expected,said one CNN jounalist

Dana Lewis NBC News Correspondent Moscow Dana Lewis has been the Moscow-based correspondent for NBC News since July 1998, contributing stories from around the world to "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," "Today," "Dateline NBC" and MSNBC. Lewis has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Middle East, and he is regularly assigned to NBC’s London and Tel Aviv bureaus. Lewis was one of the first western journalists into Afghanistan after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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A PALESTINIAN television journalist was killed today as he was giving a live report to camera on deadly clashes between US forces and insurgents in the heart of the Iraqi capital. Residents of his home town in the West Bank watched in horror as Mazen al-Tomaisi, who worked for Saudi television Akhbariya and for the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya, went down. Mr Tomaisi, 28, was killed when a US helicopter fired missiles on a mob which had gathered round a US tank in Baghdad that had been set ablaze in a car bomb attack, one of a string of bombings...

Italian journalist executed 27/08/2004 00:06 - (SA) Doha - An Islamist group has executed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni in Iraq, Arabic-language satellite news channel Al-Jazeera reported on Thursday. Baldoni's captors, a group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq, had on Tuesday threatened to kill their hostage unless Italy withdrew its 3 000 troops from Iraq within 48 hours.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb ripped through a crowded restaurant hosting a New Year's Eve party in the Iraqi capital, killing five Iraqis and wounding 24 others. The nighttime attack came amid tightened security in Baghdad as military officials expected insurgent attacks. Sirens wailed and helicopters buzzed overhead as ambulances and U.S. soldiers converged after the explosion on the Nabil restaurant, a popular spot with foreigners that had advertised a New Year's Eve party with live music and belly dancing. Three reporters from the Los Angeles Times, and four local staff members suffered injuries that appeared minor, said Dean...

U.S. TV network news about Iraq as distorted as al- Jazeera?Checking in from Iraq on Wednesday's Hardball with Chris Matthews as part of that show's look this week at "Iraq: The Real Story," Bob Arnot highlighted a Muslim ayatollah in Iraq who "is furious at the press coverage. He says not only American television, but Arabic satellite TV, such as Al-Jazeera and the Abu Dhabi station, have mis-portrayed the great success that is Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein." Arnot, MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens noticed, documented how "Iraqis themselves are angrier than the American administration about the barrage of...

MSNBC’s Arnot Contradicts Media Image of Iraq in Violent Chaos Bob Arnot, who rarely appears on NBC News programs, popped up Monday night on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews to contradict the image of chaos in Iraq hyped by the media. Launching Hardball’s week-long series, “Iraq: The Real Story,” Arnot recounted the challenges faced by troops in hostile areas, but countered the negative image of the Iraqi situation he knows Americans get from TV news. Arnot argued: “The real question is, given all the death and destruction that you see on television in the United States, what’s the real deal...

Jewish World Review May 30, 2003 / 28 Iyar, 5763Jack Kelly Our best and brightest are not at Harvard http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | One of the smarter of the many smart decisions made by the Pentagon during Operation Iraqi Freedom was the decision widely to "embed" journalists with U.S. troops. I think it may cause a sea change in the attitude of journalists toward soldiers. I am writing now to express my respect for and appreciation of the soldiers in the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and the First Armored Division, with whom I was embedded, and the soldiers of the 3rd...

At times, [during the Iraq War] Ms. Banfield sounded like she was Press Secretary for Saddam Hussein and Hezbollah .Still, she could be a big news star someday. She is sexy and attractive, articulate and smart. And the press loved her.But now she is being sent to Coventry for opening her cute little mouth.This was amazing. Why was NBC News President himself bothering to squelch this little pipsqueak when she squeaked in Kansas?They are so upset with Banfield at 30 Rockefeller Center that insiders are saying that her career is finished at NBC, if not elsewhere.

NEW YORK - NBC News has swooped in and signed Richard Engel, a former freelancer who became one of ABC's most visible war correspondents when he stayed in Baghdad while other reporters left. Engel, 29, will begin reporting for NBC from Baghdad in early May, the network said Wednesday. In the days before the war, ABC, NBC and CBS all pulled reporters from Baghdad, concerned about their safety, and didn't send them back until American troops reached the Iraqi capital. Engel, a freelancer, decided to stay. Despite inexperience that occasionally manifested itself as boyish enthusiasm, Engel was used frequently on...

Geraldo Rivera Rants About Media Critics Reporter Lashes Out At Networks On Web Site Posted: 12:17 p.m. EDT April 30, 2003 Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera is still filled with "smoldering anger" from the way the media reported on him being asked to leave Iraq for drawing troop movements in the sand. Rivera wrote on his Web site, roughpoint.tv, that the media stories were a "grotesque exaggeration." He especially blames MSNBC, who he says conducted a "Get Geraldo" campaign. He seems to go after Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann, though he doesn't mention them by name. He wrote that MSNBC...

Embedded Reporter From Pa. Newspaper Ordered to Leave Unit in Iraq The Associated Press Military authorities have ordered an embedded newspaper reporter to leave his unit in Iraq, saying he revealed sensitive information in a story. The commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines, to which Brett Lieberman of The Patriot-News in Harrisburg was assigned, cited an April 25 story describing the unit's mission of patrolling Nasiriyah. Lt. Col. Robert C. Murphy said the story included too much military detail, the Patriot-News reported in Tuesday's editions. "We were disappointed," Patriot-News Executive Editor David Newhouse said. "This seems to have...

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...

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...

CNN reporter Brent Sadler traveling on a road very near Tikrit. The retired military officer in the studio keeps telling him to be careful. I find these live shots very nerve-wracking. It seems rather foolish for a reporter to be doing this, considering that Tikrit is a Saddam stronghold. Just a heads-up in case anyone is interested.

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq (CNN) -- The hometown of Saddam Hussein has been "largely untouched" by coalition troops or looting, according to CNN correspondent Brent Sadler, who entered the area Sunday morning.</p> <p>Sadler, one of the few Western journalists to travel to the immediate outskirts of Tikrit, said the town looked abandoned -- with no military movement and only a few civilians on the road. Highway signs bearing the deposed Iraqi leader's image were still intact.</p>

In a live report just now, Ted Koppel reported the exact location of a "line of tanks and armored personnel carriers a mile and a half long," and provided the additional news that they are nearly out of gas and are awaiting resupply. In so doing, he set them up as targets for what's left of the Iraqi military.

Arnett Back on the Air From Baghdad By RAF CASERT .c The Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Peter Arnett is back on the air from Baghdad. Only days after he was fired by the U.S. network NBC, Arnett found an unlikely new audience Thursday - the Dutch-speaking population from northern Belgium. ``Thanks Peter Arnett, we are proud to have you on our team,'' said VTM news anchor Dany Verstraeten after Arnett finished his first report from the Iraqi capital. The private network announced it will have daily reports from one of the world's most famous reporters until the end...

A land mine explosion killed one BBC journalist and injured another in northern Iraq on Wednesday, the company said. Kaveh Golestan, 52, an Iranian freelance cameraman for the British Broadcasting Corp., died instantly when he stepped on the mine as he climbed out of his car in Kifri, Iraq, at midday, the company said. Producer Stuart Hughes, 31, injured his foot in the explosion, while correspondent Jim Muir and their translator were unhurt, the BBC said. Hughes was being treated in a nearby American military hospital. They were part of a four-man BBC team filming at Kifri, a town in...

Peter Arnett isn't the only U.S. reporter busted in Iraq: The U.S. military is expelling Fox News Channel's unfortunate hire Geraldo Rivera from the country, CNN reported today. CNN quotes U.S. military officials as saying Geraldo violated "the cardinal rule of war reporting Monday by giving away crucial details of future military operations during a live broadcast." It gave no further information.

Press Release Source: National Geographic National Geographic Statement Regarding Peter ArnettMonday March 31, 10:00 am ET National Geographic fires Peter Arnett WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2003--National Geographic has terminated the service of Peter Arnett. The Society did not authorize or have any prior knowledge of Arnett's television interview with Iraqi television, and had we been consulted, would not have allowed it. His decision to grant an interview and express his personal views on state controlled Iraqi television, especially during a time of war, was a serious error in judgment and wrong. Contact: National Geographic, Washington Ellen Stanley, 202/775-6755 estanley@ngs.org or...

Australian SAS troops are in control of a major highway to Baghdad and are some of the closest coalition forces to the Iraqi capital, according to an American journalist fleeing the city. "They were clearly at the very front lines of reconnaissance and they were calm. There was no fear in any of their eyes," US correspondent Nate Thayer told Sky News. The elite soldiers were the first significant military force encountered by Thayer as he drove out of Baghdad, he said. Thayer's report is the first on the location of the SAS but he has promised them he will...

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002 Former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, whose virulent ant-Americanism even Ted Turner's network could no longer stomach, wants to go back to Iraq before war sets in there, according to PR Watch. Now freelancing for Camera Planet, Arnett covered the Gulf War from Saddam Hussein's bosom, using every opportunity to spout Iraqi propaganda while slandering U.S. forces. In one infamous incident, Arnett told CNN viewers that a building housing Iraqi secret police and a chemical warfare facility that had been bombed was really a baby milk factory. As proof he held up a sign in English that...

JOHN GIBSON: "Peter Arnett, who is now employed as a correspondant by National Georgraphic Television, was interviewed by one of Iraq's Information Ministers on Iraq State TV. He began interviewing Arnett about what is going on in Iraq and what is going on in America about the war. What Peter Arnett said is that it is clear that is going on in the US is clear that there is a growing challange of Bush's conduct of the war and then Arnett seemed to take credit for that, by saying that HIS reports from Iraq are helping opposition grow. " ARNETT:"...

MELVILLE, N.Y. (AP) -- Two Newsday journalists who disappeared from Baghdad may have been detained by Iraq's government, the newspaper's editor said Saturday. Reporter Matthew McAllester and photographer Moises Saman were last heard from Monday, and the newspaper has been unable to obtain information about their whereabouts from Iraqi officials, said editor Anthony Marro in a statement. Journalists expelled from Iraq have told Newsday that security officials on Monday came to the Baghdad hotel where they were staying and questioned reporters. Some were taken from the hotel. No one saw McAllester and Saman removed, but their room was empty...

NEWS ANCHORS? AWAY!-- Let's 'Unembed' Embedded Media Bias by Lin Anderson The best idea to come out of the Iraq campaign thus far -- I mean, aside from bombing the Information Ministry there -- is the "embedding" of reporters with combat units in the field. Whether the combat units themselves consider this a dandy notion is, however, an open question. Journalists can be a real trial in the best of times, as my ex-wife will tell you long into the night. Embedding reporters may, at the very least, finally put the lie to one of those quotes that everyone is...

With Charlie Company near Najaf, Iraq -- The roof of the armored personnel carrier was slick with blood. In places, it came over the sides in a cascade of dark red. The blood was from two civilians who had been caught up in a short, vicious firefight at a key intersection. Now a third wounded civilian was being lifted to the roof for transport to a nearby aid station. "Hold the drip bag," 1st Sgt. Jose Mercado shouted at me over the din of tank and small-arms fire and the wind whipping the dust into a thick orange cloud. "You...

Mar 27, 2003 (Knight Ridder Newspapers - Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service via COMTEX) -- Anyone who has watched a measurable amount of television war coverage over the past few days has been privy to the vicarious thrills of "embedded" reporting. We've rumbled through the desert atop armored vehicles. We've been plopped on the flight decks of aircraft carriers as U.S. jet fighters return from their bombing raids. We've even found ourselves in the middle of fiery gunbattles that look like something out of a Bruce Willis action film. Not surprisingly, this kind of you-are-there access has spawned lots of wide-eyed...