Understanding modern war reporting

If you have time, read Michael Fumento’s entire article about Iraq War correspondents who opine about events all over Iraq, but seldom leave the comfort of their Baghdad hotel rooms.  If you don’t have time, you’ll still get the point from this single paragraph:

Vietnam was the first war to give us reporting in virtually real time. Iraq is the first to give us virtual reporting. That doesn’t necessarily make it biased against the war; it does make it biased against the truth.