Confederate Yankee = APDD antidote

Updated, Wednesday 11 July
A while ago I defined Associated Press Deficit Disorder as

Associated Press Deficit Disorder: the innatention of Associated Press and other news agencies to the actual words said by a person who doesn't fit what AP wants to hear.

This week's antidote to Associated Press Deficit Disorder? Confederate Yankee

Go read his posts
When Does a Massacre Matter?
A Hunting We Will Go
Associated Press Prints Immediate Correction
AP Responds to DecapiGate
AP: Screw the Facts, Protect the Narrative

Forget about AP.
Go read the guys who are there now, or who have been there recently:
Michael Yon in Iraq
Matt Sanchez in Iraq now, and Afghanistan
Michael Totten, who is heading to Iraq right now.
Michael Fumento is back from Afghanistan

Read their articles, look at their pictures, get the real story. And please, contribute to their blogs through PayPal if you can.

UPDATE, Wednesday, 11 July
Laws, Sausages and Journalism, and Second Chances
And Security operations in Basra, the second largest city in Iraq, soon to be transferred to Iraqui forces