bob woodruff-related stories
Posted Jun 4th 2009 5:03PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: News, Documentary, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
On Tuesday night, ABC News aired a special:
Earth 2100. It was to give us a speculative look at the next 90 years based on scientific analysis and scenarios. The idea was to "scare us straight" with the worst possible scenario, and it was certainly bleak. According to these experts the worst possible scenario has life as we know it eradicated, cities destroyed and the global population dwindling below 3.5 billion. The message is about the importance of taking care of our natural resources and doing something about our negative impact on the planet. Important stuff, yeah?
It took me a couple days to figure out how to write about it, because I really hated it and I wasn't even sure why. Maybe it was Lucy's fictional narrative, shown in static drawings instead of computer imagery or special effects. Telling us about the ocean levels rising and changing the map may have had more impact if you'd shown us that map? Hell, their image for the flooding of the subways was a photo of a subway tunnel with poorly layered running water where the tracks are. You're not going to scare people into changing with 1960s era effects.
Continue reading Earth 2100 was terrible and it really shouldn't have been
Posted Apr 24th 2008 7:20AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: News, Celebrities
This summer Discovery is launching a "green" television channel, called Planet Green.
ABC newsman Bob Woodruff is slated to anchor an eco-friendly newscast for the new network. The newscast is described as "in-depth news for half an hour each week."
It'll be interesting to see what the story count is for this half hour of news.
CBS Sunday Morning is something that I would consider to look "in-depth" at stories and it takes an hour-and-a-half to do that each week. The "green" newscast will focus on scientific analysis, as well as debates on issues. It's being produced by ABC News, where Woodruff is a correspondent.
This is a very different direction for Woodruff, who was briefly co-anchor of ABC
World News Tonight until
he was seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.Posted May 18th 2007 7:32PM by Meredith O'Brien
Filed under: News
Two ABC News journalists were ambushed and killed in Iraq as they were headed home from the ABC News Baghdad bureau yesterday, ABC announced.
Thirty-three-year-old cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, and 26-year-old soundman Saif Laith Yousuf were in their car when they were "reportedly ambushed and they were killed by unknown assailants" after being "stopped by two cars full of gunmen," ABC's web site reported. The network's Baghdad correspondent, Terry McCarthy said, "Today we've lost two family members, and it really hurts."
One hundred and four journalists have been killed while covering the Iraq War, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Notably, one of ABC's anchors, Bob Woodruff, sustained serious injuries while covering Iraq in January 2006.
Posted Mar 5th 2007 11:59PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, OpEd, The Daily Show, Comedy Central
"
M*E*S*S": God, this was so depressing. Our wounded soldiers are being treated in awful conditions. Senior Military Analyst John Oliver elaborated on the situation. There is no longer any doubt in my mind: John Oliver lives in the
Daily Show studio.
"Dodge Caravan": What was up with that Tony Snow clip? It looked like it was pulled from, like, YouTube or something. Damn interns and their inability to find high-quality clips. Anyway, this segment actually managed to top the "M*E*S*S" bit and make me even more depressed. What a downer.
Continue reading The Daily Show: March 5, 2007
Posted Feb 26th 2007 6:43PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, News
Last month,
I wrote about a special that ABC's Bob Woodruff, who was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq in January of 2006, was putting together. The special was to discuss his recovery and interview eyewitnesses to the attack, and the military medical personnel who helped get him to safety. That special airs tomorrow night at 10 PM on his home network.
In advance of that special, Woodruff
spoke to reporters about the bombing and his recovery. He described what he saw and felt right before the explosion, and what he said to cameraman Doug Vogt -- who was also severely injured -- right afterwards. He talked about being in a coma for 36 days, and having to put his memory back together as he recovered. "I couldn't remember my two young daughters - not their names but their existence," he told the reporters. He did say he may not ever be 100% recovered from his injuries, but "maybe if I get somewhere in the 90s, that would be pretty damned good."
Woodruff will be interviewed by Diane Sawyer on
Good Morning America tomorrow morning, and Oprah Winfrey will also interview him on her show tomorrow.
Posted Jan 9th 2007 10:23AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, News, Programming
A few months ago,
I mentioned that ABC's Bob Woodruff, who was injured in Iraq last January, will be making a special for the network about his recovery. Well, the AP is reporting that an air date for the special has been set: tentatively titled
To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports, it will air on February 27.
In the special, Woodruff will not only talk about his long recovery process from his injuries, but he'll also speak to the medical personnel that helped him, as well as eyewitnesses to the roadside bomb attack. He'll also profile military rescue teams that work to get injured soldiers out of harm's way and to various field hospitals.
As was also announced this past fall, Woodruff and his wife Lee will also write a memoir on his recovery, to be published by Random House.
Posted Oct 20th 2006 3:01PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, News, Industry
The AP
reports that Bob Woodruff, who was
severely injured by a roadside bomb while working in Iraq last January, will make his first on-screen appearance since the injury this spring. He will appear in a prime-time special that detailed his long recovery process.
In the special, Woodruff will interview eyewitnesses to the explosion and the medical teams that helped get him to safety and saved his life. He will also talk to other soldiers who have been injured in Iraq, as well as their families. Woodruff and his wife Lynn are also working on a book for Random House about his injury and recovery affected him and his family. The book will also talk about the couple's history together.
After the special airs, Woodruff will also begin to work more regularly at ABC News, but his role is uncertain, since he lost his
World News anchor spot to Charles Gibson earlier this year.
Posted Sep 15th 2006 10:44AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent
Bob Woodruff, the ABC News anchor who was seriously injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq
last January, will soon start appearing in some primetime newscasts. His first assignment is to report on himself-- the attack and his recovery. ABC is calling his recovery "miraculous". He spent the summer recuperating with his family, where his wife says he played tennis, drove the boat and even did pilates with his sister-in-law.
ABC says Woodruff will slowly return starting this fall, but he's not getting his anchor chair back. That's all
Charlie's now. Do you think there's an awkward relationship there? Bob didn't even have his anchoring gig for a month before the attack.
Posted Jun 14th 2006 9:14PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent
ABC has a short story with video
on its website (scroll down to the Entertainment section) of former
World News Tonight anchor Bob Woodruff's surprise visit to the newsroom on Tuesday. In the video, Woodruff is all smiles and looks pretty good, if not a little beat up. The explosion in Iraq that injured him and a photographer
in January did damage his face, head and body.
As you can see in the picture, Woodruff now has a little hair on what was once a shaved head, where doctors performed several surgeries to save his life. (His wife is the blonde woman in the background) Woodruff told his colleagues that he was unconscious for 36 days after the explosion. He spent three months in the hospital and is now receiving out-patient rehabilitation at a New York clinic. Charlie Gibson has been
named anchor of
World News Tonight and Woodruff's future with ABC News is still uncertain.
Posted Jun 12th 2006 12:50PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent, Industry, Celebrities
That's the news from Joe Hagen at
New York magazine, in this long (but worth reading)
piece. Before ABC tapped Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas to be co-anchors on
World News Tonight, they approached Charles Gibson, asking him to "keep the seat warm" until the 2008 election and then they would find a permanent anchor. But Gibson said he didn't want to just fill the seat (and he also didn't want to continue doing
Good Morning, America), and that if he didn't get the anchor position for good - and without Vargas - then he was going to walk.
Vargas is said to have been surprised by her ouster from the show.
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Posted May 23rd 2006 12:31PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, News, Industry, Programming
ABC News
announced today that Charlie Gibson will be taking over as sole anchor of
World News Tonight on May 29. He will be juggling the assignment with his duties as anchor on
Good Morning America until the end of June, after which he will work only on the evening newscast. This news comes in the wake of Elizabeth Vargas' impending maternity leave; she will return in the fall to her duties on
20/20, and will do occasional news specials, but she will not return to
WNT. The ABC announcement also mentioned that this move gives Bob Woodruff time to recover from the injuries he suffered in Iraq earlier this year; whether he'll make it back at all is still up in the air, though.
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Posted Apr 6th 2006 7:40PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent, Industry
To the
right is the first picture America has seen of Bob Woodruff, co-anchor of ABC's
World News Tonight since he
was severely injured in Iraq back in January. To accompany the picture, ABC
released a message he sent to the news division
president, David Westin, which was then relayed to his co-workers.
"Though I know there is still a
long road ahead, it's nice to be feeling more like myself again laughing with family, reading bedtime stories and
reminding my kids to do their homework," Woodruff wrote.
No indication was given as to when he'd return
to
WNT, who will be losing their other co-anchor, Elizabeth Vargas, when she goes on maternity leave later this
year.
[Photo: ABC News/Ida Mae Astute via AP]
Posted Mar 17th 2006 9:16AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent
According to the
New York Post, ABC
World News Tonight anchor
Elizabeth Vargas is having a boy. The network news anchor is due in late summer.
The little boy will be her
second son. She and husband, singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, have another son, Zachary, who is three.
Posted Mar 16th 2006 9:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, News, Celebrities
ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff
was
released from a military hospital today, six weeks after being
seriously injured by a roadside
bomb in Iraq. He suffered injuries to his neck, head, face, and chest and will requires many more months of
rehabilitation, first in a private facility and then at his home. When he was released, doctors say he was laughing and
joking with family and staff. Doug Vogt, the ABC cameraman also injured in the explosion, was released from the hospital
in
February.
ABC
News has said that Woodruff is welcome to return to the anchor chair when he is ready. In the meantime,
Diane Sawyer and
Charlie Gibson have been subbing for him. ABC will dedicate Monday's entire episode of
World News Tonight
to the third anniversary of the Iraq war.
Posted Feb 25th 2006 11:14AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: ABC, News, Talent
Cameraman Doug Vogt is out of the hospital and
headed to the home he shares with his wife in France. Vogt and ABC
World News Tonight anchor Bob Woodruff were
riding with a military convoy outside of Baghdad
last month when the vehicle
they were riding in hit a roadside bomb. Both men were treated by military personnel and flown to Germany and then
America for treatment. Vogt was released from Bethesda Medical Center this week, but Woodruff remains sedated. Doctors
say Woodruff may be able to move to a care facility near his home in New York in the next few weeks.
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