Media criticism is almost always is a waste of time, whether it comes from the right or the left. Some particularly dumb quotes from this article:

Ed Offley, editor of the online Defense Watch Magazine, said that the presence of young, inexperienced reporters led to "shrill and nervous coverage."

Um, no.... Actually, most front line troops themselves haven't seen battle before -- not that there's anything wrong with that. But many of the embedded reporters are, on the other hand, "veteran war correspondents" who have covered conflicts all over the world. Just not alongside the US military.

Fred Barnes, the executive editor of The Weekly Standard and a commentator for the Fox News Channel, said the news media was overstating how easy the war would be and then panicking as fighting got rough. "The American people," he said, "are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are."

Who's panicking? I suppose he thinks every news report should lead with "The US is still winning the war, but...." and end with "... but the US is still winning the war." True, there's plenty of dumb hype on TV right now. Nothing new there. But if we'd seen celebrations in the Iraqi streets, the hawks would have congratulated themselves and said, "I told you so." Now that there are no celebrations in the streets, they blame the media for building the expectation and say, "This is WAR, motherfucker!" Ah, the anguish of dogma.