Mark Moyar explores the legacy of David Halberstam:

The Vietnam-era journalists began a tradition that today’s press all too frequently upholds. We hear little from most large press outlets about American heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan—men like James Coffman Jr., Jason Dunham, Danny Dietz, and Christopher Adlesperger who have demonstrated extraordinary bravery in battle—or about our military successes there. Instead of associating the names of heroes with these wars, Americans associate the words they hear most often from the press, like Abu Ghraib and Haditha.

As Charles Johnson wrote in 2005, "The New York Times ignores the largest beam in the universe, sticking in their own eye, with a story that asks, Where Are the War Heroes?"

Update: Related thoughts from Hugh Hewitt, very much back from vacation.