Good question from the war reporter

Michael Yon, the independent reporter in Iraq I mentioned yesterday, has published an update to his story on the graves found near Baqubah in Iraq. With the body count now in double figures, he has a question:

As the investigation unfolds more pertinent details, I’ll continue to update the story. But the biggest question rippling across the internet – “Why hasn’t the mainstream media picked this up?” – is something only representatives of mainstream media can answer.

In fairness, several large outlets did publish it online: National Review Online and Fox News were both quick to place the story prominently on their websites. A few others also published excerpts. It was even briefly up on the Drudge Report. On the blog front, Instapundit, Hugh Hewitt, Blackfive, Andrew Sullivan, Captain’s Quarters and many others picked it up.

But for those publications who actually had people embedded in Baqubah when the story first broke and still failed to cover it, their malaise is inexplicable. I do not know why all failed to report the murders and booby-trapped village: apparently no reporters bothered to go out there, even though it’s only about 3.5 miles from this base. Any one of the reporters currently in Baqubah could still go to these coordinates and follow his or her nose and find the gravesites.

Is it any wonder, then, that Americans find even the military more credible than the media on this particular war?