Our friends over at HotAir.com posted a clip Michael Yon's interview on Fox and Friends .

His comment about the lack of news coverage on the war was,

Good news is no news. That's simply the way it is.

It reminded me of an interview JD had with (then) Colonel Gurganus about a reporter who doggedly pursued the preferred media narrative.  Colonel Gurganus has since become General Gurganus, and JD was able to interview him again in 2007 during the Anbar Awakening.

Here are parts of the 2005 interview.  A little background, when Gurganus talks about the Abu Ghraib attack he's referring to this .

It is an interesting look at how news from Iraq is 'made.'  As I watched and listened to this interview, I couldn't help asking myself, "Is this the way all / most reporters are?  If it is, how much does that skew the news we get?"
 
Members of the unit the reporter was embedded with told JD what is was like to be interviewed by her.  The questions were all leading, "this really isn't working"  "this is just a waste of time isn't it"  "did you join up to do this" etc. etc. etc.  As JD understood it, she went from Marine, to Marine, to Marine trying to get the quote she wanted and when she couldn't get it, she got more and more frustrated and finally gave up.
 
Forty-eight hours later she went back to the Baghdad Hotel.

That is why Johnannes, Yon, and others have risked life and limb to bring the American public the news that..the News won't report.

Since the media won't report much in the way of good news, we'll settle for no news from them.
 

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