Pajamas Media has an interesting report on the number of embedded reporters in Iraq. There are none from The New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times. There aren’t any from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, MSNBC or Fox News.

In fact, there are only nine embedded reporters in Iraq, and four are from armed forces outlets, leaving a grand total of just five embedded reporters. Of those five, three are from relatively small outlets—The Charlotte Observer, Polish Radio, and the Italian media network RAI—leaving just two major media companies with embedded reporters: the BBC and the Associated Press.

It makes you wonder where much of the Iraq War reporting is coming from. In some cases, the answer is local stringers whose loyalties and biases are—to be charitable—unclear. It’s interesting that the media is willing to utilize reporters embedded with terrorists and insurgents, but seems less interested in having reporters accompany our own military.