News of Iraq

The recent invasion in Iraq provided many instances of why our sources of news do matter. For example, the sailors in the Royal Navy were reported to have given up on BBC as their main source of news of the war's progress: as I recall it being told, they turned BBC off with "disgust." Embedded reporters and war and Iraqi (recently) blogs provided some of the most immediate and unfiltered insights. In the big media, John Burns of the NY Times stood out during and now as a reliable source. Here he is a recent article offering his experience of the good and bad things going on in Iraq.