Priorities

Drudge has a report that ABC News hasn't yet viewed the video footage from the attack which injured ABC news guy Bob Woodruff. Here's my favorite bit from the report:

ABC executives made the controversial decision not to remove the tape from the camera.

"It is not first, second, or third thing on anyone's mind," said the insider.

The camera will be hand-carried and delivered to ABCNEWS headquarters in New York later on Thursday, from Washington, a source claims. "No one has seen what is on the tape. No one."

On whether ABCNEWS will air the footage: "It will be treated with the same standard and editorial judgment as any war footage."

Translation: We will milk this thing for every iota of publicity this is worth. We are currently determining the best time to run this during sweeps month. We'll have every last one of our shows promoting it, with teary pathos, of course. Heck, we'll even make ESPN Sportscenter start off with the promos.

Sigh.

I understand it is news when a prominent journalist is injured on a battlefield. It's the celebrity factor has much as anything.

But if ABC really "supported the troops", they'd devote just as much time to the soldiers and Marines who are injured every day.

Here are just a few of the reactions from around the web...

Psycmeistr:

The real problem with this "culture of self" so prevalent in the liberal MSM and among liberals in general, is that in being so self-absorbed, they engender the mistaken belief that, since everything revolves around them, everyone and everything else is naturally sucked in to their own little universe by their perceived sense of gravity.

Blackfive:

However, I also got very angry at the newswoman. Very angry. A million emotions and thoughts rushed through me - sorrow for the families of Woodruff and Vogt, frustration that this was a big news story, that the news people valued their own over the men and women fighting for their freedom...and don't get me started on the difference between Woodruff's pay and Corporal Snuffy's *cough* salary. Of course, I felt angry that she never shed tears on national television for my friends.

Media Blog:

The real problem with the coverage of the Woodruff story is that it's allowed some critics — who already opposed the war — to draw attention to the journalists rather than the troops in a way that cheapens the enormous sacrifices of the latter.

Update: That didn't take long. Now just have to wait for when they decide to air it.