Union General William Tecumseh Sherman was not a fan of reporters, to put it mildly. "Now to every army and almost every general a newspaper reporter goes along, filling up our transports, swelling our trains, reporting our progress, guessing at places, picking up dropped expressions, inciting jealousy and discontent, and doing infinite mischief."

He also said of them, "I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."

Many days as I review the newsbites from the MSM, I tend to agree with him. But there are a few who are getting it right, and that's worthy of note. Make sure to take a look at these stories:

Fox News
The Gitmo Diet. A couple of Fox News' folks have taken the Gitmo Challenge. Describing the menus at Gitmo as basically "The South Beach Diet," they looked into whether or not the Gitmo detainees were being mistreated on a culinary level. Making it clear that they were only in this to test the menu, not any other policies, these two have an audio diary and will be blogging about their experiences.

Michael Yon
If you haven't been to see his blog yet, you need to go. Walking the Line III - The Feathers is up now. Here's an excerpt:

Whenever we gather up at the scene of an IED, I expect every moment to be when the car bomb will drive into us. Time for the secondary IEDs to explode. Now come the machine guns. Any second now, those mortars should be coming in. RPGs. Nothing happens.

They set the plan and we mount up, and I pull my seat belt on, then take it off again. We drive across the dirt median--this is where the land mine will explode--nothing happens. I put the seat belt back on. We leave the road--this is where the real ambush kicks off . . . I unsnap the seat belt . . . the enemy probably let themselves be seen knowing we would come 'round to attack them. Nothing happens.

Michael Yon is a journalist embedded with U.S. troops, who consistently shows top-notch reporting, and a rare journalistic insight into what our troops are facing. His blog is one of my regular visits, and I'd suggest making it one of yours, too.