Kimberly Dozier

I noted with sadness today that Kimberly Dozier of CBS News was badly wounded in Iraq. Talk about fearless and smart. She, and the other female reporters, on the ground in Iraq stand in vivid and courageous contrast to all of the male reporters and commentators who shoot their mouth off safely in the U.S. I'm sure Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, Wolf Blitzer and Sean Hannity, and Joe Scarborough will be applying for her job.

I'm not unaware that Bob Woodruff was also severely hurt trying to do a report. Nor that two other CBS men were killed in the explosion that hurt Dozier. But she has been in Baghdad for a mind-boggling three years doing the best reporting on Iraq that I've seen, and women reporters are the ones who are covering this war.

The Edward R. Murrows, Dan Rathers, Morley Safers', Peter Jennings', and Tom Brokaws and Bob Schieffers are gone from war coverage since Vietnam. Their male (eunuch) descendants on 24/7 news stay safely nestled in their studios shooting their mouths off without ever having lived or reported from Baghdad for an extended period of time.