Austin Bay weighs in on the firestorm over AP’s biased war coverage.

Power Line notes the vindication of journalist Mark Yost, the St. Paul Pioneer Press editorial page associate editor who was viciously attacked by thin-skinned colleagues for challenging MSM war reporting. (See columns by Mary Katherine Ham and Mike Fumento.)

And Jack Kelly at Irish Pennants writes:

I’m not impressed with the argument that journalists can’t report positive news because it is so hard to get around the country. More reporters can embed with U.S. forces. (There are only about three dozen embeds now, down from around 700 during Operation Iraqi Freedom).

Congress and the Pentagon could make it easier for regional newspapers to send embeds by permitting journalists who are embedded with U.S. units to buy Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance. My paper has balked at sending me back to Iraq because of the high price of hazard insurance. If we could buy insurance at the same rate as the GIs do, more of us would go.

Anyone in Washington listening?

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