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The Mrs already pointed this out in the Dawn Patrol, but don't miss the comments on this entry at The War Tapes blog. You'll find a group of soldiers correcting numerous "inaccuracies" in media coverage of themselves.
Sample:
the New York TIMES did an article about 3 men in my unit (69th Infantry, NYARNG) after we got back from Iraq, and I was one of them. The reporter seemed to go to some trouble to get things right while he was interviewing me, but the story went through a couple of layers of editors on its way to print. They wanted a nice, neat story: one guy's fine, one guy's moderately troubled, and one guy is all messed up. Well, I was the latter, and not too pleased to be portrayed that way. For example, they made it look like I hadn't been working for a couple of months because I was too depressed, when in fact I hadn't been working because I was waiting to have knee surgery.Many more at the link.
The entire 69th was the victim of an even bigger media lie - CBS' bogus story about the Airport Road in Baghdad.
But media "misquotes" of individual soldiers is nothing new. Here's an example from CNN.
And here's a round-up of numerous examples from the pages of the New York Times.
If you want the real deal, go see The War Tapes. The feedback on the film I've gotten from military folks who've seen it has been 100% positive.