\'Crocodile Hunter\' Steve Irwin killed

[Lepidina]

Anyone who goes in front of the camera regularly is a showoff, and that includes reporters. Do you think TV reporters who go into a war zone are like Steve?

To some extent, yes. There is a need to share the news but do we need up to the minute reports from the front lines? Um...probably not. I was unemployed when the Iraq war first started back in March 2003 and was up most nights watching the news from the embedded reporters. Most had absolutely nothing to report other than they were moving, it was sandy and hot, and they could come under fire at any moment. This went on for hours. The ones that were in hot zones either couldn't report because it wasn't safe or it would disclose their location. Again, kind of useless.

Reporters that report out on the beach during a hurricane are also in this camp. Dude, we get that it's really windy and rainy and that sane people shouldn't be out in that kind of weather. And every news org in the US will be out there as well like we've never been hit by a hurricane before.