Conservative Bloggers Embedded With Troops To Publish Favorable News Out Of Iraq…

Washington Post Jonathan Finer, Doug Struck December 26, 2005 at 02:09 PM
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Retired soldier Bill Roggio was a computer technician living in New Jersey less than two months ago when a Marine officer half a world away made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Frustrated by the coverage they were receiving from the news media, the Marines invited Roggio, 35, who writes a popular Web log about the military called "The Fourth Rail" ( http://www.billroggio.com ), to come cover the war from the front lines.

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