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...news anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously injured on Sunday in a roadside bombing while traveling with a U.S. army convoy in Taji, an insurgent stronghold north of Baghdad. Woodruff and Vogt had left their U.S. Army Humvee and had climbed into the turret of an Iraqi armored vehicle to begin filming when a powerful, remote-controlled explosion ripped through their armored vehicle. ABC news reported that the group then came under fire from insurgents. Once the firefight stopped, Woodruff and Vogt were rushed by helicopter to a U.S military hospital near Baghdad. Doctors judged that Woodruff...
...Woodruff and his crew had arrived in Baghdad just days earlier to prepare a special news program on the Iraqi conflict to be broadcast after President George Bush's State of the Union address. They were filming in an area outside of Baghdad where rebels have stepped up their attacks against U.S. and Iraq forces. On Jan. 16, rebels in Taji fired a surface-to-air missile shooting down an AH-64 Apache helicopter, killing both of its crewmen...
Will their banter flow like Matt and Katie's or stall like Dan and Connie's? Trying to usher in a shiny, young, coed era in network news, ELIZABETH VARGAS and BOB WOODRUFF will succeed the late Peter Jennings as anchors of ABC's World News Tonight on Jan. 3. Vargas, 43, cohost of the network's 20/20, will become the first nightly-news anchor of Hispanic descent. Woodruff, 44, anchor of ABC's weekend news, will hold up the venerable white-guy-with-good-hair tradition. The pair will attempt to stanch the migration of network-news viewers...
...controversy. One issue included Buffy the Vampire Slayer in a list of influential political women because of her “girl power.” The magazine halted publication in 2001. CNN political analyst and George contributor Paul Begala also sat on the panel, and scheduled panelists Judy Woodruff from CNN’s Inside Politics and “The Nation” editor Katrina vanden Heuvel did not appear due to travel difficulties...
Instead of simply enforcing or exploiting the African-American stereotypes present in other films (like Soul Plane), Woodruff plays with them and allows his Beauty Shop to become a place of simultaneous racial diversity and unity. Rather than have Norris’s hairdressers make stereotypical comments for the sake of a good laugh from his audience, he allows them to intelligently display diversity and racial identity...