February 2, 2006

Disgraceful: In today's grapevine, Brit Hume takes time to aid the right-wing attempt to use the wounding of NBC anchor Bob Woodruf and cameraman Doug Vougt as an opportunity to bash the mainstream media:

Overexposed?

Some U.S. forces are grumbling about the press coverage of ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, who were seriously injured in Iraq over the weekend, complaining that their struggle in the face of the same dangers has not received the same media attention.

UPI notes that the two men have the sympathy of the military, but one officer in Iraq says it's "frustrating to see something so dramatized that happens every day to some 20-year-old American," adding, "you'd think we lost the entire 1st Marine Division."

And a senior officer tells UPI, "The point that is currently being made [is] that press folks are more important than mere military folks."

You're a real class act, there, Brit... sitting pretty and editorializing in support of the Iraq war from your New York studio while a pair of real reporters suffer massive head-wounds covering the conflict on location. And then you have the gall to suggest that media coverage of the tragedy is excessive. What a prick!