HOLY CRAP! People are Getting Wounded in Iraq!

As I’m sure all you know, the number one story in the US right now (it is the top story on the webpages of ABC, CBS, CNN and the #2 stories on FOXNews, MSNC and the New York Times) is that two men are in serious but stable condition following a roadside-bomb attack in Iraq. While such events kill American and Iraqi soldiers every daily with little media fanfare, today’s attack injured a reporter and his cameraman. This is hardly new, as the death/injury/kidnapping of a reporter generates several times as much press as when a soldier or other civilian is similarly harmed. You’d think the media was over there to liberate Iraq and the soldiers who get killed far more often are simply embedded troops in the news crews.

I’m glad that our media knows which group is more important: those doing the thankless and far more dangerous job of trying to win the war or those who voluntarily watch the war to bring themselves fame and give the world such pretty pictures. While I pray for the newsmen who were injured, I certainly have no more concern for them than the American and Iraqi soldiers and civilians who have been (or will be) killed or injured.