I thought this guy was fair and worked very hard at his craft. Leaves wife & 3 daughters. May he rest in piece.
in a day when they're difficult to find, we lose a good media person David Bloom RIP
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strangely enough
strangely enough
it was totally unrelated to the war...i understand he had a pulmonary embolism....could have happened on a tread mill or in a newsroom....doesn`t make it any easier to accept....
strangely enough
it was totally unrelated to the war...i understand he had a pulmonary embolism....could have happened on a tread mill or in a newsroom....doesn`t make it any easier to accept....
Prayers to him for safe journey. RIP
Prayers to him for safe journey. RIP
Another fine reporter, Michael Kelly, was killed in Humvee accident
I enjoy his pieces in Atlantic Monthly, New Republic and such.
here is Kelly on some reasons you see such barbarism among leaders in Iraq
"An astonishing and terrible thing: to be nineteen years old, a country boy, to find yourself in the richest place you had ever seen, a city filled with weak and trembling people, and to realize that you had within you terrible desires-to hurt these people, to rape a pretty girl and then throw her in the trash, to stomp a man's face under your boots-and that you had, as it were, permission to do so. It must have been blackly exciting at first, and then sickening, and by the end a descent into Conradian self-horror. All the physical signs of the occupation-the filth, the destruction, the garbage and shit even in the Iraqis' own quarters-spoke of men sinking deeper and deeper into rottenness. "
piece on him by embedded reporter here.....with links to articles on Bloom, Kelly, and all this .......http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28367
and pyonter has a map (requires flash 6) showing locations and links to all embeds and their journals........http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=27077
Prayers to him for safe journey. RIP
Another fine reporter, Michael Kelly, was killed in Humvee accident
I enjoy his pieces in Atlantic Monthly, New Republic and such.
here is Kelly on some reasons you see such barbarism among leaders in Iraq
"An astonishing and terrible thing: to be nineteen years old, a country boy, to find yourself in the richest place you had ever seen, a city filled with weak and trembling people, and to realize that you had within you terrible desires-to hurt these people, to rape a pretty girl and then throw her in the trash, to stomp a man's face under your boots-and that you had, as it were, permission to do so. It must have been blackly exciting at first, and then sickening, and by the end a descent into Conradian self-horror. All the physical signs of the occupation-the filth, the destruction, the garbage and shit even in the Iraqis' own quarters-spoke of men sinking deeper and deeper into rottenness. "
piece on him by embedded reporter here.....with links to articles on Bloom, Kelly, and all this .......http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28367
and pyonter has a map (requires flash 6) showing locations and links to all embeds and their journals........http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=27077
