He went in early, on his own (and subscriber's, in a sense) dime, and took with him a greater understanding of what he was seeing and who he was walking with that informed his reporting on the war in ways that the MSM reporters didn't/wouldn't/couldn't.To me he's at his best when he's covering the troops, doing it the Ernie Pyle way. But that's my bias - if I had it in me to do what Mike does, I'd be doing the units, the grunts, the infantillery, the tankers-who-are-dragoons. The kids that drive the trucks along the IED and ambush-beset MSRs. The Medics, god...
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Apr 19 2010, 07:29 AM
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