more newsworthy?

apparently the ny times isn't the only one questioning (the coverage) of woodruff-hurt-in-iraq story.

the media blog at conservative national review online rounds-up some of the coverage including NRO's byron york who needles some of the media figures then makes the point

Perhaps some press critic will explore that question. And perhaps that critic will compare coverage of the Woodruff attack with coverage of the deaths of U.S. Army Private Brian J. Schoff, of Manchester, Tennessee, and Sergeant David L. Herrera, of Oceanside, California, who, according to Army records listed in icasualties.org, were killed in action — hostile fire, IED attack — in Baghdad on January 28.

compare the 3000+ stories on woodruff-vogt as opposed to the few hundred stories of schoff and herrera

york's remark leads right into some troops wondering (via conservative bastion lucianne) about the coverage

"Why do you think this is such a huge story?" wrote an officer stationed in Baqubah, Iraq, Monday via e-mail. "It's a bit stunning to us over here how absolutely dominant the story is on every network and front page. I mean, you'd think we lost the entire 1st Marine Division or something.
[snip]
"The point that is currently being made (is that) that press folks are more important than mere military folks," a senior military officer told UPI Tuesday.
[snip]
"It's just a bit frustrating to see something so dramatized that happens every day to some 20-year-old American -- or worse to 10, 30-year-old Iraqi soldiers or cops alongside us. Some of the stories don't even mention the Iraqi casualties in this attack, as if they're meaningless," wrote the officer in Baqubah.
[snip]
It was a story ABC News became aware of because that was where Woodruff and Vogt were treated. It was not a story ABC necessarily had reason to do before; there was no news hook. However, this was where hundreds of wounded soldiers and Marines had previously been stabilized [at the Balad Air Base hospital] before being moved to Landstuhl Air Base.

the interest in the story propelled abc's world news tonight to a rare win against nbc nightly news

¶ - nitish @ 9:09 AM