Campbell Robertson, New York Times' Broadway Reporter, Headed To Iraq As War Correspondent

New York Observer:

Campbell Robertson, the dogged Times journalist who has worked his way up from office clerk to gossip reporter to Broadway-beat man, is headed to Iraq.

"We were out last night and he was picking my brain on Iraq," said Times Baghdad bureau chief Jim Glanz in a telephone interview on June 17. "He said that people have been asking him when he's going to Iraq. And he said he'll go once the Tonys are over!"

In some ways, it's unbelievable that a man who wrote a story for Monday's Times recapping the Tonys--for instance, he wrote that the awards tried to "goose ratings" by including more numbers from Rent this year--is going to be filing with Basra and Mosul datelines before old story subjects are back from the Hamptons.

Read the whole story: New York Observer

Comments

[karlitohungus]

02:40 AM on 06/19/2008

hey, when are they sending candy crowley into battle? or will she get sidetracked by the racks of lamb at the kebap stores?

[ibivi]

08:56 AM on 06/19/2008

Ms Crowley has lost alot of weight. Have you seen her lately?
Anyway, what is with the NYT? Are they becoming a tabloid? I guess it doesn't matter because he will probably just write up what the military give him. That is hardly reporting.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

09:43 PM on 06/18/2008

What will they call the Iraq War awards show? The "Sunni's"?

[InofTouch]

06:57 PM on 06/18/2008

I just laugh how people are stereotypeing him because of his profession and it just patheic

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

05:34 PM on 06/18/2008

Green Zone Story -- A tale of unrequited love between the daughter of a Sunni IED bomb-maker and the son of an al-Sadr Shiite militia man.

We, of course, get to play the role of... Officer Krupke.

We'll give Al Qaeda In Iraq's CURRENT "Number Two" this crowd-pleasing number:

Officer Krupke,
We're down on our knees,
How'd ya like a country with
a social disease?

Maliki, I just met a girl named M-a-l-i-k-i...

[revko]

05:52 PM on 06/18/2008

Easy, Action!!

[revko]

04:24 PM on 06/18/2008

Iraq, Iraq
What a hell of a mess
The ire is up
since the battery crest.
Bush put a medal on everyones chest.
Iraq, Iraq
IT'S A HELL OF A MESS

[dadw5boys]

02:47 PM on 06/18/2008

Hope he does not forget his sweater for the cool nights in the desert while he is out sightseeing.

[BigLib]

02:41 PM on 06/18/2008

They'd send Maureen Dowd but they can't find size 16 army boots for her to squeeze into.

[galateadoro]

02:33 PM on 06/18/2008

He'll still be giving us an account of fiction, as the NYT is the greatest propagandist of lies from the decaying American Empire. While pretending to be fair and liberal, of course.

[wadenelson1]

03:45 PM on 06/18/2008

It's that old liberal mainstream media rearing it's ugly head again.

[BatedBreath]

02:05 PM on 06/18/2008

A theater critic to cover the war theater....Of course. What took them so long?

[DietrichMoody]

01:57 PM on 06/18/2008

If Michael Medved, movie critic now the Dr. Laura of the right wing movement, can do it so why not Campbell.


Does this mean that we can now sen Michael Medved to Baghdad.

[TrevorAlan]

01:54 PM on 06/18/2008

I'm not sure if this is terrible because it shows that the Times is once again refusing to do real journalism on Iraq and instead send someone who will parrot administration talking points and press releases...

OR

Great because instead of someone who feels constrained by the MSM assumptions about the need to report confusing metrics on the surge and make his old military sources happy we'll have someone whose first story is -- OH MY F--ING GOD THIS PLACE IS SCREWED WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!!! mommy!

It will be one or the other.

[Ladyrantsalot]

01:48 PM on 06/18/2008

Well, Frank Rich took a similar route as I recall. Of course, Frank Rich was a far superior drama critic as well. Hmm. Oddly, until now, I thought Campbell Robertson was a woman.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

01:44 PM on 06/18/2008

Can we get CNN's unsinkable Michael Ware to cover Broadway?

[Synoia]

01:42 PM on 06/18/2008

" All the world is a stage and all men and women merly players. They have their exits and entrances and one man in his time plays many parts" - As you like it or Call it What you will.

Just the man for the job.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

01:31 PM on 06/18/2008

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I hereby announce a competition for a new stanza for "Springtime for Hitler".

One condition: winning entry must contain some version of the line,
"And he said he'll go once the Tonys are over!"