New York Times, BBc, NPR, Mother Jones show one side of the story. In real journals, you get a more complete picture of what's going on, like that reported by MSNBC (http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/04/24/941495.aspx).

"We take a lot of them out with us on patrol, so they're well on their way to becoming soldiers, and we train them every chance we get," said Riddle, who was shot in the arm by a sniper on Feb. 14 in Taji, Iraq.

Spc. Gage Skrdla, 23, of Wichita, Kan., agreed with Riddle.

"They're willing to learn, and they're learning," said Skrdla, who was wounded Nov. 14 by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. "You know, that's what's important. They're still a young army, just trying to rebuild. They don't have the discipline that we do, but they're seeing how we work our strategies, and they're learning from it, and it's making them better."

But I understand there are other styles of reporting and I'm sure Tokyo Rose would be proud of you.