No else over there even comes close to the caliber of his work.
L
Mr Yon is a worthy successor to Ernie Pyle!
Wow. Who is this guy, Yon? Never heard of him, but that was great writing. Put me right there.
Michael Yon is completely and studiously ignored by the Lamestream media for all of the obvious reasons. If they recognized Michael it would only serve to show how totally inept and cowardly their own reporting is. They would much rather continue to sit in the Green Zone and make stuff up that follows the quagmire BS that their editors expect and demand.
That he won’t is just a severe indictment of the mainstream media.
Remember, the NYT got a Pulitzer for misreporting the forced famine in the Ukraine. Pulitzers are only given to anti-Americans.
We need to have a different award for the likes of Yon.
The Pulitzer is a piece of crap, doled out by a board comprised of pismire editorial board collectivists, some of whom can spell and some of whom can't.
A much more interesting award for those who write as well as Mr. Yon is the John X. Beidler Press Award, for which one can only be nominated by or voted upon by one who's previously won a Beidler. Begun as a regional award by Chicago newswriters, it evolved into a national award in the 1980s, and has even gone to two or three broadcast-industry newspukes over the years.
I nominated Yon for a Beidler last year.
No else over there even comes close to the caliber of his work.
Canadian Graeme Smith, who writes for the Canadian Globe and Mail, sometimes called *Canada's National Newspaper* and was previously their Moscow Bureau Chief, does a really decent job of explaining the war to a mostly-civilian Canadian audience, much as the late Ernie Pyle did for Scripps-Howard during WWII. And he also maintains a very *new-media-ish* blog, seen here, which'll give you some idea.
Yon's good, but he still has a way to go before he's of the stature of Charlie Black or Keyes Beech.