It took a few minutes to look at her work.

Jackie Spinner was an embedded journo for the recent Falluja assault (that had to be tough) and before and since then has been assigned to Baghdad. Spinner seems to have done some straightforward reporting, although she does call the terrorist/fascistic criminals we’re fighting “the resistance”. She has filed a variety of stories on rebuilding and contractors (Halliburton), Abu Ghraib and prisons, military news and the Fallujah campaign, the shock of war to our soldiers, insecurity of the locals, and other human interest vignettes from Iraq, much like the article Roger has posted about. Some articles appear to be opinion neutral, while others are more colored and defeatist in tone and detail. She wrote up a nice profile of the Warrior Monk in Iraq.

Here are some articles that are less optimistic:

For Iraqis, Not Much to Celebrate in 2004; Fallujah Residents Emerge, Find ‘City of Mosques’ in Ruins; Anxious Iraqis Are Leaving Before Elections; For One Contractor, a Road Too Hard; As 19 Die in Attacks, Allawi Faults Security; Head Scarves Now a Protective Accessory in Iraq; Fear Dims Christmas Eve in Baghdad; U.S. Tries to Corner Fallujah Insurgents; Rebuilding What the Assault Turns to Rubble; and Ominous Calm Settles Over Baghdad.

(I told Roger I didn’t know how to link, and now I’ve inflicted too many on him. Apologies!)