Atlantic Monthly editor dead in Iraq

[daemon]

here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27396-2003Apr4.html) is the story.

it's very strange because I was just reading his editorial in the latest AM about an hour before I read this.

-brian

[DudeMan]

Holy shit. Man, I hadn't heard this.

That really bums me out. The Atlantic Monthly has really taken off since he took over, and has become maybe the best and most thought-provoking general-interest magazine out there. I was just reading the latest issue, too. The article on the Fall of the House of Saud was great.

I liked him ever since he started writing in the New Republic several years back. Damn. That sucks.

[GWB]

David Bloom, NBC's embedded reporter, died this past Saturday. He was also the co-anchor of NBC's weekend Today show. They're saying that he did not die due to combat. He died of a pulmonary embolism. He was 39. I always liked him because he was a very objective reporter.:(

http://www.msnbc.com/onair/bios/Global/bloom_b.jpg

[daemon]

yea, I always liked him too. I saw some footage of him live riding on the back of a tank and I remember thinking "I really hope he doesn't die".

just got done reading that saudi article in AM. I had no idea how messed up that place is.

-brian

[matt]

Originally posted by GWB
[B]David Bloom, NBC's embedded reporter, died this past Saturday. He was also the co-anchor of NBC's weekend Today show. They're saying that he did not die due to combat. He died of a pulmonary embolism. He was 39. I always liked him because he was a very objective reporter.:(

This is truly truly a sad story. I always liked David Bloom. I started watching him when I worked for Channell 22 in Dayton with his coverage of the OJ trial and the Andrew Cunanan/Gianni Versace story. He was with NBC New York for a couple of years after working as an anchor for an NBC affilliate in Florida. We stayed up all night watching his trek from Kuwait north into Iraq and then the last 10 days worth of his approach to Baghdad. I have said that he would have a Hell of a book to write once this war was all over. I really respected and admired him as a person, and his style. He was a real family man and objective, enthusiastic and innovative reporter. Of all the reporters in Iraq right now, he was my favorite. He will be truly missed.