Among the Troops: Seeing the Iraq War Through Three Journalistic Vantage Points.

The article discusses the mass media coverage of U.S. Operation Iraqi Freedom by journalists. A content analysis is provided concerning the quality and effectiveness of three types of journalists involved with that war including journalists that the U.S. government embedded in military units, journalists that were stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, and journalists that were independent and were thus free to roam. Topics include news coverage which emphasized a soldier's experience in war while downplaying the invasion's effects on Iraqi people.