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SERIOUSLY
INJURED IN IRAQ: ABC
News 'World News Tonight' co-anchor Bob Woodruff. (Photo:
ABC News) |
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BY ROBERT BALLANTYNE
POSTED MARCH 21, 2006
It is doubtful that
ABC News World News Tonight co-anchor Bob Woodruff, who was injured in
a bomb blast while reporting from Iraq, will
return on air soon.
According
to a statement released by ABC News president David Westin in early
March, Woodruff "is now conscious and talking, although he remains
under fairly heavy medication for pain from his various injuries,
which are healing well."
However, media gossip website Jossip goes
further in specifying Woodruff's injuries and suggests that he
may have sustained serious facial damage during the bomb blast. New
York Daily News also ran a gossip column that had Woodruff's
brother David joking to Bob that he still had a
face for TV. Read into that what you will. Either way, Woodruff will be rehabilitating
for a long while to come. As for Woodruff's
Canadian cameraman Doug Vogt, who was also injured in the blast, ABC
News released a statement that said he is back
with his family in France and recovering well. He will continue
to undergo treatment there and come back for occasional checkups. 
A slightly different version of this article originally appeared in
the Popjournalism Blog on March 12, 2005.
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