While for the most part the war coverage leaves a lot to be desired, and provides more misinformation and recycled stories than any real news, if you haven't seen Rick Leventhal's live reports from Fox News you should check it out. "Well Shep, that noise you hear is the turret turning. We've engaged the enemy." He's with the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Unit of the 1st Marine Division, which was one of the first to begin the ground assault, crossing the Iraqi border 90 minutes after air strikes by Marine aviators in southern Iraq.
I know, it's Fox, and the studio talking heads are all conservatives who would avoid criticizing the adminstration at pain of death, but it's worth sitting through to catch Leventhal's updates from Iraq. Unlike most of the other embedded reporters, you can tell that Rick fits in as part of the unit he is travelling with deep in the front lines south of Baghdad. He gets interviews with all the troops, and leaders. He even mentioned they asked him to brief the Marines on what was going on in the rest of the world at the end of a weekly operations meeting.
His live reports are usually on between 10pm and 2am EST, morning Baghdad time, and give both a soldier's perspective and details you don't get from the other reporters. Helps you get a picture of the war as it unfolds. From the American perspective of course. The Iraqi citizens' side is not really being told anywhere in the US media. Anyways, it beats listening to Forrest Sawyer, Aaron Brown, or Shepard Smith drivel on about things they know next to nothing about. First it was "shock and awe" then "unexpected stiff resistance." Give me a break. Look at the deeper issues, not just the cosmetic surface.