The real sad irony of the Kimberly Dozier attack is that this news crew

[cantstandbush]

was actually trying to get a "good news" story that the RW-FOXite bashers keep accusing the "liberal media" of ignoring. The fact is, there is really no "good news" in Iraq. If we are builing, we are rebuilding what we destroyed. If kids are now going back to shcool, many are survivors of sanctions, denied school supplies, medical care, and destroyed buildings from coalition nations. This is not "good news." It is simply reports of the results of the terror the US coalition policies that were thrust upon the Iraq people for over 15 years. The only "good news" left to come from Iraq will be the news that American and coalition forces are leaving Iraq.

[tanyev]

1. Not the first time....

VIDEO - ABC's 'Good News in Iraq' Story Turns Violent
Responding to the President's criticism of the media coverage of Iraq, ABC's Nightline, airs the story of an attempt to report on good news in Iraq.

After a day of covering the horrible violence in Iraq, ABC reporter Jake Tapper tried to find some lighter news. The ABC News team decided to cover a new Iraqi sitcom and the challenges of creating comedy for Iraqi television viewers.

The story quickly turned from good news to tragedy and fear as Jake's contact, who was also the head of the entertainment division for Iraqi TV, was murdered during filming.

Jake Tapper concludes the story with these words: "And there went our effort to show comedians trying to make Iraqis smile again. It ended with the funeral of the man who helped us put the story together. A horrible, gruesome, perfect metaphor for daily life in Iraq."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x742621

[warrens]

2. I missed that. Thanks.

Irony isn't quite the right word here. Sort of a no-good-deed-goes-unpunished feeling.

[cantstandbush]

3. And I have yet to hear one of Dozier's collegues in the media make this

point. It's almost like this event never happened. No outrage, no comments of sincere sorrow, no apologies from Laura Ingrham, no saddnes or remorse displayed by FOX....nothing!!!

[cantstandbush]

4. Amazing how little this is being covered by the US MSM.

It's like when the US bombed Al-Jazeera journalists in Bagdhad.

[cantstandbush]

5. At least someone else gets it as I do.

http://www.mediachannel.org/affalert420.shtml

Trying to get the "feel good story."

"What a tragic loss---TV journalists dying not in search of deeper truths but to send back another picture-rich but patriotically correct story along the same ‘good news’ lines as one filed for ‘60 Minutes’ by CBS’s now chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan. She glamorized the tactics of a brainy American colonel heroically stopping terrorists in the town of Tel Afar.

A ‘Washington Post’ journalist, filing a report from the same town, debunked CBS’s storyline. He found no terrorists killed in what was a sectarian and internal political fight."