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Q.E.D.

Today I am in Iraq, back in a war of such strategic consequence that it will affect generations yet unborn—whether or not they want it to. Hiding under the covers will not work, because whether it is good news or bad, whether it is true or untrue, once information is widely circulated, it has such formidable inertia that public opinion seems impervious to the corrective balm of simple and clear facts.

Michael Yon will be remembered long after he leaves as the vanguard of what makes the New Media truly new. He is the first man to embody every aspect of information dissemination: field reporter, news service, publisher and distributor.