Military Cut n' Runners

A recent poll at military.com yielded some surprising results. Surprising enough, in fact, to cause the editor of the site to make the following observations:

If this is, in fact, a media war that we're losing, which, in turn, will cause us to lose the actual war, then how did we come to be losing? Because as I remember it, the media seemed onboard for the big win back in '03. They we're embedded - riding tanks with the first wave, sending blurry videophone reports from the front every hour on the hour. The embeds were smiling; back home the Pentagon press corps was smiling (along with Donald Rumsfeld). Life was good. Hell, the whole nation was swept up in the Abilene Paradox of it all.

So at what point did the MSM decide we were going to lose this thing? Was it during the Fallujah campaign in '04 (the one where we kicked their butts)? And what was the media's motivation behind the decision? Ratings? More ad dollars?

I'm just asking because the poll I'm referring to here wasn't conducted by CNN or ABC or The New York Times but by Military.com. We know who our audience is. Military.com regulars are pro-military, to put it mildly. The military experience isn't some vague concept to them. They served or are serving, along with their families.

Seems like a certain editor at Military.com hasn't been listening to enough Sean Hannity...