Word: embeddedness
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A tense silence falls over the room. Three hundred people sit motionless, eyes down, concentrating on the cards in front of them. Their felt-tipped pens hover over the numbers, ink cobras ready to strike. The air is thick with anticipation, or at least cigarette smoke. Then the man up...
This media-aware Administration used the press, if not as a weapon, then as an advantageous feature of the landscape. The government managed coverage, giving reporters embedded with troops an exciting but limited view that made for thrilling pictures. TV also managed itself: as the statue fell, troops were in...
A month later, when HBS called up Tim and Cindi Finnigan to ask to interview their son, they said they had no idea how to reach him. With the help of the satellite phone of a reporter embedded with the “3/5,” as his unit...
Kristin Hall, assistant director of MBA admissions at HBS, said that the school had some difficulty tracking down Finnigan for an interview. After Finnigan failed to respond to an e-mail, HBS contacted Finnigan’s parents, who directed the school to Karen Karr, Joe’s girlfriend...
Cindi Finnigan, Joe’s mother, said an e-mail network of friends and family with soldiers in the battalion has become her primary source of information. She sometimes hears about her son’s location only from journalists embedded with the 3/5. She’s had...