Via Instapundit, blogger Michael Yon writes from Iraq today about "the bizarro-world contrast between what most Americans seem to think is happening in Iraq versus what is really happening in Iraq." He says:
No thinking person would look at last year's weather reports to judge whether it will rain today, yet we do something similar with Iraq news. The situation in Iraq has drastically changed, but the inertia of bad news leaves many convinced that the mission has failed beyond recovery, that all Iraqis are engaged in sectarian violence, or are waiting for us to leave so they can crush their neighbors.
So, Yon is offering his syndicated Iraq content for FREE to National Newspaper Association publications. He describes upcoming content :
Several upcoming dispatches will focus on how the situation in Southern Iraq has dramatically improved over past months. Ironically, the character of this improvement is distinguished by the lack of violence, as well as the increasing order and normality as Iraqi Security Forces step up to greater responsibility for security in the region.
Blogs like the Jawa Report and Hot Air are encouraging readers to donate money to Yon's project and encourage their newspapers to pick up his content. Yon hopes to translate his content into 17 languages and re-vamp the website, too.
Confederate Yankee notes the importance of this project: "And so Yon is going to syndicate his text and images, for free to get real, frontline stories of the war to the American people, doing the job that Americans the Manhattan and Washington, DC-based professional media won't do."
AJ at the Strata Sphere adds that some publications, including Newsweek, are in fact reporting successes in Iraq, thanks to "the electronic pamphleteers (bloggers) and independent reporters (Yon, Roggio and Totten)."
Hey MSM, when are we going to get the truth about Iraq? You don't even need to pay a reporter--you can get it for free. What publication will be the first to take Yon up on his generous offer?
