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TV News Winds Down Operations on Iraq War $Richard Engel, a top correspondent for NBC, is rotating in and out of Baghdad. Stories from Iraq that are strongly visual - as when an Iraqi journalist tossed two shoes at President Bush this month - are still covered by the networks, though often with footage from freelance crews and video agencies. \"But these other stories - ones that require knowledge of Iraq, like the political struggles that are going on - are going uncovered,\" said a former NBC vice-president.(NBC Photo)$ Quietly, as the United States presidential election and its aftermath have dominated the news, America's three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq. "The war has gone on longer than a lot of news organizations' ability or appetite to cover it," said Jane Arraf, a former Baghdad bureau chief for CNN who has remained in Iraq as a contract reporter for The Christian Science Monitor. Posted in Media, Iraq

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TV News Winds Down Operations on Iraq War

$Richard Engel, a top correspondent for NBC, is rotating in and out of Baghdad. Stories from Iraq that are strongly visual - as when an Iraqi journalist tossed two shoes at President Bush this month - are still covered by the networks, though often with footage from freelance crews and video agencies. \"But these other stories - ones that require knowledge of Iraq, like the political struggles that are going on - are going uncovered,\" said a former NBC vice-president.(NBC Photo)$

Quietly, as the United States presidential election and its aftermath have dominated the news, America's three broadcast network news divisions have stopped sending full-time correspondents to Iraq.

"The war has gone on longer than a lot of news organizations' ability or appetite to cover it," said Jane Arraf, a former Baghdad bureau chief for CNN who has remained in Iraq as a contract reporter for The Christian Science Monitor.

Posted in Media, Iraq