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"One thing I don't want to hear anymore," Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, told The New York Times's Bill Carter in the wake of the car bomb attack in Iraq that left two CBS News personnel dead and one critically injured, "is people like Laura Ingraham spewing about us not leaving our balconies in the Green Zone to cover what's really happening in Iraq."

Ingraham has come under quite a bit of fire for her March 21 comments on NBC's "Today," where she said the following to David Gregory:

David, to do a show from Iraq means to talk to the Iraqi military. To go out with the Iraqi military, to actually have a conversation with the people, instead of reporting from hotel balconies about the latest IEDs going off.

Ingraham had gone to Iraq for eight days, and while she was there, she says she "wasn't in a hotel balcony. I was out with the U.S. military." CBS News' Lara Logan, appearing on CNN's "Reliable Sources," called Ingraham's statements "outrageous" in an interview two months after ABC's Bob Woodruff sustained serious injuries while reporting in Iraq. "I think it's an outrage to point the finger at journalists and say that this is our fault. I really do. And I think it shows an abject lack of respect for any journalist that's prepared to come to this country and risk their lives," she said.

After the attack involving CBS News personnel, blogger Atrios dredged up Ingraham's comments and wrote the following:

Journalists tend a bit too much to bask in the reflected glory of the accomplishments and activities of their greatest colleagues, but there's certainly reason to have a great deal of respect for people who are actually trying to get the story in Iraq. The truth is it is extremely dangerous for journalists to go out in Iraq - something the right wingers sitting in their basements covered in cheetoes like to attribute to cowardice as they wank away - but it's also the case that some journalists are getting out there one way or another.

Another few millenia in hell awaits Ingraham, I think.

It's important to note that while Ingraham's critique was the most high-profile, she was not alone.

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