Word: embeddedness
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Like the news from reporters embedded with American and British troops, the reaction of students and professors to the invasion of Iraq was fragmented and often contradictory.
Bingham is currently back in Baghdad, where she is working as a photographer covering the reconstruction for The New York Times. The Harvard Business School (HBS) interviewed and accepted First Lieutenant Joe Finnigan while he was still deployed in Iraq. The interview was conducted during a sandstorm with a satellite...
Finnigan’s girlfriend—Karen Karr—arranged for him to interview with HBS over the satellite phone of Darrin Mortenson of San Diego’s North County Times, a reporter embedded with the Fifth Marines.
Known as embedded reporting, the practice first emerged in Kosovo and Afghanistan, but saw its first large-scale implementation in Iraq—where roughly 600 reporters were embedded in coalition units.
It worked. By the end of the campaign's first week, at least seven real press vehicles had to brave a hail of bullets. Then, as journalists began to report on the mounting military atrocities against civilians, several reporters-Indonesian and foreign-were interrogated by the police or army, and...