Monday, January 30, 2006

What about the wounded soldiers? Where's the reporting?

You might expect the media -- from Fox News to CNN to MSNBC to NBC to ABC -- to headline every newscast with updates about anchorman Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt being wounded in Iraq.

But, don't you think that the families of the 2000 + servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and the tens of thousands of wounded feel that their sons and daughters deserve equal coverage, too? Where are their faces on the TV screens and the media's Web sites?

What makes a media person's life more important than a soldier's or Marine's life? Nothing.

We'll continue to get wall to wall and minute to minute coverage across all media channels when a celebrity is wounded and recovering but not one of the others who were in the Humvee has received or will receive an ounce or inch of coverage.

Where's the outrage? Don't the media have a moral and professional responsibility to cover the average Joe and Jane in the warfare trenches?

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