This morning, ABC News had coverage on the radio from a reporter at the scene of yesterday’s bomb blast in Baghdad. He tried hard to convey the destruction, and added at the end, “a child’s sandal lies aimlessly in the street.”
I wonder what journalism school he graduated from.
Sure, but couldn’t he have misspoken simply because he was nervous, or maybe even rattled? I’d imagine one might feel that way when standing on the site where a bigass bomb went off not long ago.
Maybe Birdie can back me up on that.
Granted, maybe not getting rattled in that situation is one of the qualifications for that journalist’s job.
Comment by Bogey — March 18, 2004 @ 7:28 am
I doubt it. He was pretty calm, trying to sound grave.
Comment by Bunker — March 18, 2004 @ 7:39 am
Hell you should have seen the blast when it happened like we did. It was about one mile due north of the refinery, and it shook our place. As far as being scared, I can see that. the journalist won’t even come into my sector. Earlier this week we did “Iron Promise”, and a journalist from stars and stripes only stayed their for about an hour before he got scared and left.
Comment by birdie — March 20, 2004 @ 9:46 am