Jeff Emmanuel Onloads On Katie Couric From Iraq
All Combat Zone Journalism is NOT Created Equal
Katie Couric’s Impending Trip to Iraq Highlights the Difference Between Real Front-Line Reporting and Simply Going for an Exotic Byline
BAGHDAD, IRAQ – The recent headline-grabbing announcement that, in an effort to bolster the network’s sagging ratings, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will be coming to Iraq for 12 days in September has, as it should, caused new attention to be cast on combat zone journalism.
However, amidst all of the hubbub and hoopla about the ‘danger’ of her trip to Iraq, it is important to draw a distinction between what Ms. Couric and the majority of her colleagues in the media are doing, and what others in Iraq are contributing, information-wise, to the debate.
Writers and photographers like Michael Yon and Bill Roggio and documentarians like J.D. Johannes and Pat Dollard (an exception to the usual prior-military attribute), as well as men like Michael Totten, Matt Sanchez, and a very small number of others – including myself – spend (and have spent) months at a time in Iraq, living amongst the troops at the lowest echelon possible, and going ‘outside the wire’ day and night, participating in combat operations, patrols, meetings, civil affairs activities, and every other mission and operation that Iraq has to offer, duly documenting their experiences and the events which take place around them.
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Nice mention, Pat, good on you. And Emmanuel’s right.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:14 pm“Jeff Emmanuel Onloads On Katie Couric From Iraq,” as he should.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:10 pmShould’t that be “Unloads”?
August 30th, 2007 at 1:57 pmIt doesn’t matter. She won’t be out in the thick of it like the above mentioned were/are … They’ll find her some scenic backdrop on some balcony or rooftop, hoping an explosion goes off at a safe distance … just for effect … and any face to face with troops will be those not currently on a mission.
Having said that, and being a mother myself, I hate to play the gender card here but, the bitch has made more than enough money in her career. She is the single mother of a couple young girls who have had to already deal with the loss of their father. How dare she take the chance, slim as it might be, of coming back dead or like Bob Woodruff. I’m so sick of these fucking self-centered, self-righteous, media elites. Couric is nothing more than a fucking biased news reader.
I dunno, maybe CBS and the LMSM in general are hoping she’s a sacrificial lamb of sorts … gets injured critically or killed. “Damn that George Bush and his war! Bush killed Katie!!!”
August 30th, 2007 at 1:58 pmCouric is a lame excuse for a reporter. There is no way that she is going to get un the shit with the troops. She can’t even wipe her ass properly without the aid of some slug from the network.
She’ll do what CBS and the rest of the LMSM do. She’ll stay in the rear with the gear and act like she knows something.
August 30th, 2007 at 3:53 pmAnd in the end her reporting will be just another pack of Dhimi lies.
Somebody PLEASE send a mass email to the troops incountry to say the word “sputum” to her whenever she’s around.
“Slap-Happy Katie Abuses Male Producer, Whines About ‘Primal’ Couric-Haters”
http://www.newsbusters.org/node/13963
August 30th, 2007 at 5:37 pmI expect the worst from her.
August 30th, 2007 at 6:36 pmDrillanwr…first let me say I agree…get that oil out of the ground and the oil in Colorado.
Secondly, I think the troops should say something like this to her when interviewed:
“Gosh, Ms. Couric, the boys at home told me you were a Fox and, now that I’ve met you, I can’t dispute ‘em.”
Or variations thereof.
August 30th, 2007 at 7:18 pmJarhead68 -
Heh-heh-heh! Stealth-like, eh? I like that …
August 30th, 2007 at 7:59 pm