Interesting interview with Aaron Brown last night.

A Newsweek guy was telling about how the military and gov don't report all the injuries that happen. He said a grenade was tossed
into a crowd of G.I.s and thirteen or so were hurt, six needing
air lift to Germany.

Said that it happens a lot and unless there is a death, they don't report. He was very, very grim, this Newsweek guy. You might check out their next edition.

I think a lot of reporters over there are getting hard and angry about what is happening.

Aaron mentioned how bad this is and they talked about our people getting mained and injured and no one is telling.

don't want to go with a military escort becasue it's more dangerous than being alone?

He is the new Baghdad Bureau Chief for Newsweek. I saw the interview and was surprised because I thought the WH directive was for "happy talk." He was EXTREMELY grim and the unreported story of the grenade rolled into a group of American soldiers was frightening in the fact that CentCom hadn't even reported it.

so much for 'its better than you think'

Here's part of the transcript:
BROWN: Correspondent Rod Nordland has seen Baghdad before and after, if you will. He's the Baghdad bureau chief for "Newsweek" magazine. I'm very pleased to have him with us again as we have before.

The president, Rod, talked about the Iraq that he wants Americans to see, an Iraq of schoolchildren back in class, of hospitals back treating people, a place that is certainly not perfect, but not a sea of violence. Give me a reality check.

ROD NORDLAND, "NEWSWEEK": Well, the schools are back, but there were schools before the war, too. Kids were attending school before. The hospitals were working before, although they had lots of problems, and perhaps they're marginally improved now.

In most ways, things are just now getting back to where they were before the war, and it's a little specious for the coalition to claim that that's an accomplishment, to get back to sort of ground zero as it were.

Full Transcript here

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0310/09/asb.00.html

The order came from the Commander in Chief.

Disobedience is terrorism.

and getting worse not better.

The US media is under strict orders to "keep it positive."

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Aaron's interview seemed almost a defiant "in your face" to bush and his new PR campaign.

He didn't like the fact that this Newsweek correspondent said many attacks go unreported.

I just reread the transcript but it isn't as powerful as the live interview.