DoD promises press freer access to war With the U.S. military on the verge of war with Iraq, the Pentagon plans to give the media a wide-ranging and essentially uncensored view of the fight. And if it does, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will find themselves going into combat with reporters at their sides. The plan is ambitious and unprecedented. About 800 reporters, photographers and TV crews — 20 percent from non-U.S. media, including, possibly, the controversial Qatar-based network al-Jazeera — will be assigned slots in specific ground units, ships and headquarters throughout the combat zone. Once assigned, they will...