Reports from Iraq

Most of the TV and print "journalists" in Iraq do their work from the Green Zone. The content of their reports consists of passing on reports from the field back to headquarters from the troups out in the field. This might be smart on their behalf, but you can't really get a feel for what is going on up close and personal reporting this way. To the best of my knowledge, there is only one reporter who is actually in the field. His name is Michael Yon. The travels all over Iraq and is now embedded with a group of soldiers from A Company, 1-24th Infantry Regiment. There is an E-mail service he has which will alert you when he has another report. The one I read today is really good and I recommend that you bookmark his site and sign up for the E-mails. You can do all that here.