2005: Another Bloody Year In Iraq

By Brian on December 30, 2005 4:05 PM

> Dec. 9: ABC polls and interviews Iraqis ahead of election

> Dec. 7: The cameras in the Saddam trial are controlled by the USA

> Nov. 29: Richard Engel’s macabre bomber encounter

> Nov. 18: NBC staffers are “blown out of bed” by a Baghdad bombing

> Oct. 25: Close calls for several FNC staffers in Baghdad

> Oct. 24: Insurgents launch “spectacular explosion” in view of television cameras

> Oct. 13: Harrigan in Baghdad: “I am developing now my own sort of Saffir-Simpson scale of danger, based on what I yell out immediately after an explosion”

> Aug. 24: Most Americans think “the news media could have done more to inform the public about Iraq and the stakes involved in going to war there”

> Aug. 1: News out of Iraq “is just a body count”

> May 27: Oliver North accuses the press of ignoring Iraq’s good news

> May 12: The Note admits that American news orgs will not adequately cover the “carnage in Iraq”

> Apr. 15: Three bombs explode near NBC’s Baghdad bureau

> Apr. 8: U.S. forces detain a CBS stringer for “alleged insurgent activity”

> Mar. 25: Every time CBS correspondent Byron Pitts leaves his compound in Baghdad, he says a prayer

> Mar. 14: PEJ analyzes war coverage and finds FNC to be positive, CNN and MSNBC evenhanded, and the networks negative

> Feb. 28: “A number of journalists covering Iraq — not just [Eason] Jordan — continue to believe journalists were targeted”

> Jan. 30: Election coverage: “Fox is exuberant;” Geraldo waves his flag; All movements of the press are decided by military forces

> Jan. 27: Cablers plan wall-to-wall election coverage

> Jan 21: Jennings, Williams, Smith, Cooper, Amanpour travel to Iraq for elections

> Jan. 3: The networks are spending millions of dollars covering the war