> Dec. 9: ABC polls and interviews Iraqis ahead of election
> Dec. 7: The cameras in the Saddam trial are controlled by the USA
> Nov. 29: Richard Engel’s macabre bomber encounter
> Nov. 18: NBC staffers are “blown out of bed” by a Baghdad bombing
> Oct. 25: Close calls for several FNC staffers in Baghdad
> Oct. 24: Insurgents launch “spectacular explosion” in view of television cameras
> Oct. 13: Harrigan in Baghdad: “I am developing now my own sort of Saffir-Simpson scale of danger, based on what I yell out immediately after an explosion”
> Aug. 24: Most Americans think “the news media could have done more to inform the public about Iraq and the stakes involved in going to war there”
> Aug. 1: News out of Iraq “is just a body count”
> May 27: Oliver North accuses the press of ignoring Iraq’s good news
> May 12: The Note admits that American news orgs will not adequately cover the “carnage in Iraq”
> Apr. 15: Three bombs explode near NBC’s Baghdad bureau
> Apr. 8: U.S. forces detain a CBS stringer for “alleged insurgent activity”
> Mar. 25: Every time CBS correspondent Byron Pitts leaves his compound in Baghdad, he says a prayer
> Mar. 14: PEJ analyzes war coverage and finds FNC to be positive, CNN and MSNBC evenhanded, and the networks negative
> Feb. 28: “A number of journalists covering Iraq — not just [Eason] Jordan — continue to believe journalists were targeted”
> Jan. 30: Election coverage: “Fox is exuberant;” Geraldo waves his flag; All movements of the press are decided by military forces
> Jan. 27: Cablers plan wall-to-wall election coverage
> Jan 21: Jennings, Williams, Smith, Cooper, Amanpour travel to Iraq for elections
> Jan. 3: The networks are spending millions of dollars covering the war
2005: Another Bloody Year In Iraq
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