Well Done, WaPo!

Somebody at the Washington Post has definitely been listening to all the complaining from the right about their coverage of the war. It has a page devoted to our military men and women, including video clips and a blog from a Warrant Officer 2 deployed in Iraq. This is the kind of thing bloggers should applaude, since their regular writers have some kind of brain damage that prevents them from seeing anything that the public here wants to read.

One article based on interviews with 100 veterans contains this, after a litany of the nuisances and difficulties of life in Iraq:

But it was not bad in the ways they see covered in the media -- the majority also agreed on this. What they experienced was more complex than the war they saw on television and in print. It was dangerous and confused, yes, but most of the vets also recalled enemies routed, buildings built and children befriended, against long odds in a poor and demoralized country. "We feel like we're doing something, and then we look at the news and you feel like you're getting bashed." "It seems to me the media had a predetermined script." The vibe of the coverage is just "so, so, so negative."

It's not much, but it's a positive step. Let's hope it continues and grows.