As Kimberly Dozier, CBS News correspondent injured by a car bomb that killed two colleagues in Iraq is in critical condition and "doing as well as can be expected," a doctor at a U.S. military hospital said Tuesday, we should take time to review this reporter's past work. Here is a transcript of a CNN interview with Kim from a telecast Aired November 21, 2004 - 11:30:

Interviewer HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice-over): Welcome to RELIABLE SOURCES, where this morning we turn our critical lens on one of the most hazardous jobs in journalism, reporting from Iraq.

The battle for Falluja fought during the last few weeks dramatically underscored the dangers and the challenges not just for American soldiers, but for the journalists who accompany them. And with the constant violence in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, can journalists really give us a full picture of what's going on?

Well, joining us now from Baghdad, CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier, and with me here in the studio, "Time's" Brian Bennett, who spent more than a year in Iraq as the magazine's Baghdad bureau chief. He was also embedded with American troops this past summer.

Kimberly Dozier, today, seven more people killed in Iraq as the date for elections were set as January 30th. In an environment where journalists can't go very far without bodyguards and armored cars, how difficult is it for you to give us a full picture of what's going on there?

KIMBERLY DOZIER, CBS NEWS: Well, I fell like I'm doing everything by remote, whereas when I first got here, let's say a year ago, I could drive into the streets, go into a neighborhood, talk to Iraqis, ask what they thought about something. The last time I tried to do that, to go to someone's home and sit down with that man and say, are you thinking about leaving Iraq or staying, the moment he saw me, blonde hair and my two armored vehicles, which are low-key regular vehicles but they still are armored and my security guys, he turned white. He said next door is a man from Falluja. If he sees you, if he sees your guards, he'll kill me.

So, now, we have people come to us for interviews. But that really -- it means I can't go out and hunt a story. I'm having to wait for it to come to me, or I'm having to train Iraqi translators to go out and be my eyes, be my ears, ask the questions that I would ask if I could.

KURTZ: Blonde hair, obviously a disadvantage in Iraq these days.

Brian Bennett, when you went back for your second tour of duty after being there almost for a year, how had life changed for journalists?

BRIAN BENNETT, TIME MAGAZINE: It changed dramatically ever since the sort of spate of kidnappings began this last spring. Effectively, journalists are limited to working inside Baghdad. It's very, very difficult to operate on the roads.

Before, we were able to travel all the way to north to Mosul and all the way to the south to Basra on the roads, without much difficulty, and now, because of the spate of kidnappings and the threats on the roads, it's just very, very difficult to take the temperature of the entire country.

KURTZ: Kimberly Dozier, looking at your reports for the last couple of months, a lot having to do with bombings and attacks and military action, and, clearly, that has been part of the news emanating from Iraq, but is it -- is that a one-sided picture? As you know, there are critics, including those in the administration, that say there despite the violence, there are some good things going on in Iraq, but it's hard for people like you to report it for the reason you just cited a moment ago.

DOZIER: Well, the other thing is, if say I spent the day covering a hospital opening, an American civil affairs project that they had been working on for some time, and then on that very same day there is a massive car bombing somewhere in the country, what do I report? The hospital opening, or the fact that many Americans and many Iraqis just lost their lives? There is that factor going on.

Also, when you look at it from the Iraqis' perspective, you can have, as has happened, 100 different hospitals and schools opened in this city alone. A lot of American money being put to good use, but 10 suicide car bombs that affect their neighborhoods or kill someone they know, that almost erases in their minds a lot of the good that the American coalition is doing. And that's what the American military is up against here.

KURTZ: That's a very apt description of the way in which bad news tends to overshadow even some positive developments even in a place like Iraq.