Covering the Iraq War
Since it began on March 19, the US-led war in Iraq has been broadcast 24/7 on media outlets throughout the world, the sort of war coverage that has never been seen before. Reporters are embedded with military units conducting the offensive reporting live from the front with video and satellite phones. American journalists David Bloom and Michael Kelley have died, and journalists from Reuters, al Jazeera, Spanish and Australian TV networks, an Iranian photographer and a reporter for ITN have also lost their lives. Ten journalists have died in 21 days, 3 of them today. KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour speaks with a panel of distinguished journalists about the new way news is being covered, direct from the war front.
By Sarah Spitz • • 1 min readJim Warren is deputy managing editor of the Chicago Tribune. (Congratulations too to Warren's wife, Cornelia Grumman, an editorial writer also at the Tribune, just won a Pulitzer Prize for her editorials on the death penalty.)
Pulitzer Prize-winner David Shaw is a media analyst and correspondent for the Los Angeles Times.
Eric Alterman is a columnist for The Nation, a web-blogger for MSNBC, and author of What Liberal Media: The Truth about Bias in the News.