MSM-Zarqawi-“Innocents” Betting Pool (UPDATE 3)

How long before we get MSM reports of the number of “innocents” killed who just happened to “innocently” be hanging around Zaeqawi’s lair and the 17 or more related others raided that followed soon after?

UPDATE: Didn’t take the wacked-out Left bloggers long to howl at the moon. Dr. Sanity has a roundup, before they get rounded up for the rooms with soft walls. Example:

left i on the news - "Zarqawi is dead...in an airstrike on a "terrorist safe house." And the obvious question (obvious to me, but your chances of hearing it in the corporate media are nil) is, "Even if this is true (and I assume it is), how many innocent Iraqis died in the many airstrikes on other alleged "safe houses" in previous attempts to kill Zarqawi (or his associates)?" Attempts like this one (20 dead). Or this one (40 dead). Or this one (11 dead). Or this one (40 dead). And those are just four that happened to be reported and that I wrote about."

Can their MSM reporter readers be far behind?

UPDATE 2: Not quite a "winner", but Wolf Blitzer is hot on the trail.........of U.S. forces, that is:
5:36PM EDT

Source: CNN

Journalist: Wolf Blitzer (Situation Room)

In an otherwise good interview of the venerable Zalmay Khalilzad live from Baghdad, Wolf wrapped up with the final Question:

"Collateral Damage, Mr. Ambassador. Do you know if there were any innocent civilians killed as collateral damage in the double-bombing?"

ALSO:
"This is just to cover Bush's [rear] so he doesn't have to answer" for Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military and his own sagging poll numbers, said Rep. Pete Stark, California Democrat. "Iraq is still a mess -- get out."

ALSO 2:
See “This is CNN” at Confederate Yankee, of CNN featuring the rubble of a neighboring bombed out house.

THEN WE HAVE THIS:

GAZA (Reuters) - The ruling Palestinian faction Hamas on Thursday deplored the killing by U.S. warplanes of the al Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, describing him as a casualty of a crusade against Arabs and Muslims.

UPDATE #3: We have Baltimore Sun reporters decrying the “inappropriate glee” of American media over the death of Zarqawi (without comparison to the media’s inappropriate glee over the allegations of “unarmed innocents” who die while harboring terrorists. They feature,

David Zeeck, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, described such coverage as "simplistic but understandable."

"As a one-time event, the killing of Zarqawi is pretty much unalloyed good news," said Zeeck, who is executive editor of The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash. "But lots of key figures in al-Qaida have been captured or killed, and yet the jihad continues."

"It's not our job in the news business to gloat. Our job is to deal with an event like this in a measured way."

Thomas C. Leonard, a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that the Pentagon's images of the air raid, shown repeatedly on television and on Web sites yesterday, recalled the first Gulf War and the early stages of the invasion of Iraq three years ago.

But that kind of coverage, he said, "is very selective and tells you very little about collateral damage and impact on civilians."