Well I finally found a reference to the death of the ABC cameraman (Paul Moran) which mentioned the fact that he was one of five people killed when a taxi pulled up at a road block and exploded - it was in the Canberra Times.

It's a little depressing looking at the media at the moment, just pages and pages and hours and hours of war war war. The traditional media maxim of "If it bleeds, it leads" (which really is quite disgusting when you think about it - check out Bowling for Columbine to put this into perspective) is getting quite the workout.

On other media matters, I've just finished reading a very interesting book by Andrew Olle, the late and great ABC journalist on the art of interviewing. It is a mixture of transcripts of interviews that he did with people ranging from Brett Whitely to Bob Hawke to Anita Roddick and his thoughts on the process as well as a running commentary of what he was thinking at different stages of these interviews. Fascinating stuff.
It's called Andrew Olle on interviewing and is published by ABC books. (1992). I picked it up at Dickson library here in the ACT but there are probably other copies floating about.