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"Some of this, certainly, is a logistics issue -- journalists in Iraq are part of the battlefield and/or subject to bad-guy kidnappings, preventing freedom of movement," writes
Paul Brownfield. "But this week of war-related programming makes it crystal clear: TV news, faced with its own flagging ability to be vital to our lives, has lost whatever authority remained after coverage of 'Shock and Awe' and 'Mission Accomplished' and 'Operation Iraqi Freedom.'" || NBC war correspondent
Richard Engel is interviewed by
Joel Topcik and
Howard Kurtz.
