Army Public Affairs Office RUBS Michael Yon the wrong way
What in the hell is going on with the Army public affairs office over in Iraq? Doesn’t the Army understand how precariously close we are to the tipping point in this country? The Domestic Insurgents are on the march, and what is needed is honest, clear reporting on what is happening. Lord knows, we don’t get that from the MSM huddled in Baghdad. Nobody is a more honest broker of information that Michael Yon. He reports the good, the bad and the ugly. That is why he is so widely admired. His reporting is needed now more than ever.
His latest Dispatch, titled RUBS, is simply infuriating,
But considering all the planning, organization, logistics and resources that went in to putting up what amounts to a food court in a surburban mall, how hard would it be, really, for there to be a clean, well-lit press trailer, open 24-7, with some desks, chairs and lockers, wired for the internet? Not on every base, but on enough of them so that stories from everywhere else could get out on a regular basis. For a military that is the first to gripe about not getting enough press–in a kind of war where the press can determine the outcome–it seems fairly obvious that the first step would be to at least make sure there is a place for the press to work. If this were a few months into this war, I could understand it, but to not even be at square one this far in?
A general emailed in the past 24 hours threatening to kick me out.
Read the whole thing, it is truly depressing.
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