With the recent tragedy and
developments of reporter
Bob Woodruff, I thought it
to be an appropriate time
to raise the simple and
most obvious of questions:
Why are commercial news
reporteres allowed inside of
a still-active war zone?

Are they really doing us
[ the home viewer ] a favor
or are they just a bunch
of malpracticed types who
haven't got the bearings to
stay in a place of safety?
This is a fair question to
know.

While the corporate stations
will say to us "it's all
about free press", I say
"Hey wait a minute, it's
about you and your untrained
Monkey Squad trying to cash
in on valor without ever
putting in the military
service to earn your place
at the war table"!

Who is it, exactly, who
decided that "embedded
reporters" is a good idea?
Does anyone really know?
Uh-huh, I thought so.

As if our active duty troops
don't have enough on their
strained minds to take care
of themselves, now they have to
unofficially be an ass-wipe
squad for media reporters too??
Give me a BREAK!!

Let's see if the retards
from La-La-Land are REALLY
telling the truth on this
one. Here is what the so-called
"free press" is cranking out
on the nightly news day
in, day out, week after
week, year after year and
let's all get real
about what is really coming
out of all this risk, bodily
injury, and capture for
beheadings that we are
forced to sit through.

MONDAY
A bomb exploded today and
several people were injured.
The war in Iraq continues.

TUESDAY
As the war in Iraq continues,
yet another car bomb exploded
and yes people were injured.

WEDNESDAY
Guess what? 2 car bombs
exploded instead of 1.
Gee it looks like the
war in Iraq is still
here.

THURSDAY
The war is still here in
Iraq today and a car
bomb exploded over here,
instead of over there
like all the other ones.

FRIDAY
As the war in Iraq continues
and passes a shocking death
rate, the troops cleaned
up after another bomb
exploded.

SATURDAY
The insurgents went on
TV at Al-Jazeera today
and claimed full responsibility
for all the bombs that
exploded over the week.
Another bomb exploded
while we were watching
the new TV video, marking
the continuation of the war
in Iraq.

HEY NEWS MEDIA ---- GET OVER YOURSELVES !!!
Tell me really, do YOU feel
served by all this repitition??

The old days of live
reporting from the jungle
where the military had
all kinds of warts to bear
are over, and all that
is being accomplished by
the relentless repitition
and tedium of repeating
themselves on national
TV is a bored and desensitized
audience who cannot feel
the pain and anguish of the
troops. It's a viewer setup
of sorts for "pass the remote
please".

Send commercial news media
home, let the troops do
their job with full
concentration, and get out
of a zone where danger is
everywhere.

There are better ways to
do free press reporting and
the way they have it right
now is NOT one of them.

Try this on for size.
Have an elite force from
one of the NATO allies
such as England train and
be at the ready for news
reporting in combat zones.
This would be the designated
Associated Press pool and
be done with it. That way
independent eyes are on the
mission, while at the same
time, only qualified personnel
with knowhow are sharing
concentration airspace with
active duty troops. How is
feeding from a common pool
of information, any different
at all from the relentless
repitition that we are getting
right now from live and
personal risk reporting?

Send the office suit-ties
home because there is bound
to be yet more Bob Woodruffs
and David Blooms in the
future before the matters
in Iraq are brought to a
safe conclusion and only
then, should the travel
gates be opened up to
the camera crews who just
don't get it.