I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that my pal Johnny Dollar tipped me off to this amazing, incredibly engrossing blog, Unholyland News, written by Fox News cameraman Mal James (when he's not being shot at, or maybe just between rocket attacks.) The bad news is that you're going to be spending a lot of time here and will probably forget to walk the dog/that lunch meeting with your boss at least once because it's so addictive. Here's a recent post (oh, and that's a pic of katyusha rocket parts that keep presenting themselves; Mal writes "they'll make great door jambs one day"):
...Yesterday we did not get out of Flak jackets for nearly eight hours. I even said as a joke as we were coming of the roof after one siren alert that it was not worth taking them off, I literally stepped back into the mcr ops (technical area) where we wait and as I crossed the door the sirens went off again and so it was back out to the camera position.
Even Eli Fastman my boss is wearing his flak and kevlar helmet, the first time he has worn a helmet since he finished his reserve duty. If Eli is wearing his, it means we are in danger and if his team is going to do live coverage he will be there with us.
During one barrage yesterday afternoon we heard the sound of an incoming Katusah and he just screamed "HIT THE DECK" and we all literally threw ourselves to the ground, whilst we were on air, trust me no heroics of standing by the camera and filming everyone else on the ground. I am on a platform about 2 feet up off the ground and I literally dove off into the piles of cables and tried like all off us to get under the platform.
15 seconds later I was back up on the camera
Read on... there's a ton more, including video. Just don't say I didn't warn you about your angry boss and your angry dog.
Oh, and it's widely known that Fox News correspondent Jennifer Griffin is one of THE journalistic voices of authority on the Middle East, but she's got some pretty saucy fans out there who don't even know her name...
