Military Bloggers of the World Unite! the general attitude towards the mainstream media was one of distrust. To illustrate the basis for that distrust, the blogger who ran the blog "In Iraq for 365" related an instance where American soldiers came under fire from a mosque. The American troops did not enter the mosque, however, though the media reported they did. To compound this misreporting, a network had footage of the American troops taking fire from the mosque, and MSM gatekeepers chose not to use this. As a result, the US military had to deal with international PR fallout from the incident. [...]
The milbloggers largely agreed that this is the major difference between the War on Terror and the Vietnam War. This time, the people who know the facts and the good news stories have the ability to get them out without the filters of the major mainstream media outlets, changing the terrain of the information battlefield. This shift in the terrain has helped keep the United States from completely losing the war on the home front.
