Not really a gaffe but I had to rant somewhere and this seems the most appropriate place (have also ranted to gmtv).
I am getting fed up with the constant critical spirit that is evident in all the gmtv reporting of this war.
For example, this morning, John Stapleton could hardly bring himself to describe the success of the British forces in cleaning up al-Zubayr.
He constantly used caveats like "apparently" and " to some extent".
On Sunday, they showed us videos from a camera attached to a tank gun - some excellent shooting of a radio mast about a mile away. Instead of just letting us see it, and making up our own minds about the quality of the shooting, they had to point out that it took several shots to bring it down.
What we saw, was two direct hits, and then the mast came down.
If the troops get to see or hear what the media are doing with the reports from embedded reporters, and feel as mad as I do, I do wonder about the continueing relationship between them.