两名ABC的记者（一名主持人Mr. Woodruff、一名摄像师Mr. Vogt）在伊拉克遇袭重伤，前几日刚有一名美国女记者在伊拉克被绑架，一波未平一波又起，记者俨然已经成了伊拉克仅次于美国大兵及伊拉克警察的又一大袭击目标。

      那天在施豪家玩儿，看我带去的WAR PHOTOGRAPHER的片子，他似乎有些不怀好意的对我说，哪里有战争哪里就是你们这些记者的天堂。他特别强调“你们”两个字，将我和他严格的区分开，其间的鄙视更是不言而喻。当时的我无言以对，我不想说诸如“战地记者报道、揭露战争其实是为了促进和平”之类老掉牙又没有实际意义的辨辞，真正自愿上战场的记者们或多或少都有高于常人的英雄崇拜或冒险家心理，换句话说，自我满足的需要远远高于思想觉悟的驱使，从这个意义上说，他的指责直击要害。

      但我敢肯定，绝大部分渴望上战场的记者请命绝对不是因为战争本身。从更个人的角度来说，是在战争这个极端环境下，获得对自身生命的感悟；从更大众的角度来说，是为了发掘人性，最真的人性。

      总结战地记者的特征及必须素质：勇敢、机敏、冷静、激情、决断力、浪漫主义、英雄主义……

NYtimes:

What happened to Mr. Woodruff and Mr. Vogt was one of those chilling television moments that mark a milestone. This conflict has shown all too clearly that soldiers, civilians, aid workers and journalists are all targets.

Soldiers, American and Iraqi, are wounded and killed by roadside bombs and ambushes every day in tragedies so common they float to the back pages. But until now, at least, network anchors always seemed to sail through hot spots with an inalienable aura of invulnerability, like senators or movie stars.

American TV crew hurt in Iraq attack (english.aljazeera.net)

Sunday 29 January 2006, 21:10 Makka Time, 18:10 GMT 

American television journalist Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt have been seriously injured in an explosion in Iraq.

David West, news president for ABC, said the two men were travelling with US and Iraqi troops near Taji, 20km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, when an improvised explosive device went off.

Taji has seen a number of deadly attacks on the US military and US-trained Iraqi security forces. It was one of the biggest bases of the former Iraqi army.

Both Woodruff and Vogt suffered serious head injuries and were taken into surgery at a US military hospital in the area, the network said.

They were wearing body armour and helmets, the network said. The two had been embedded with the 4th Infantry Division and were travelling with an Iraqi army unit.

The Iraqi vehicle they were in is considered more dangerous than US vehicles. ABC said the pair were travelling in the vehicle to get the perspective of the Iraqi military.

The US military confirmed that Woodruff and Vogt were injured in an attack near Taji and said an investigation was under way.

Lieutenant Colonel Barry Johnson, a US military spokesman, said: "They were with an Iraqi army unit at the time the attack occurred and are at a US military medical facility now."

Co-anchor

Woodruff, 44, became co-anchor of ABC News' World News Tonight with Elizabeth Vargas earlier this month, replacing the late Peter Jennings.

Last week, Woodruff spent three days in Israel reporting on the Palestinian elections. He was to have been in Iraq through Tuesday, according to ABC.

Woodruff, a father of four, grew up in Michigan and became a corporate lawyer in New York. He took a leave of absence to teach at a school in China, helped CBS News during the Tiananmen Square uprising and became hooked on journalism.

He has since covered the US Justice Department and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Belgrade and Kosovo.

"When I realised there was a job that existed in this world where I could be in the middle of huge world events and actually get paid for it, it was an epiphany for me," Woodruff told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

Award winner

Vogt, 46, is a three-time Emmy award winning cameraman from Canada, with 25 years as a professional cameraman, the last 20 based in Europe covering global events for CBC, BBC and now exclusively for ABC News. He lives in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Dozens of journalists have been injured, killed or kidnapped in Iraq since the war began.

Another journalist, Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter for The Christian Science Monitor, was kidnapped by Iraqi fighters on 7 January and is being held in Iraq.

About 250 foreigners have been taken captive since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi president, and at least 39 have been killed.