Word: embeddedness
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Arab eyes were a crucial consideration in planning Gulf War II. Its targets and tactics were chosen to avoid stirring up anti-American sentiment. But that strategy has not led to friendly coverage on Arab and Muslim TV or a warm reception from its audiences. Like U.S. TV, the Arab...
The root cause of this kind of sensationalized coverage is the radically new phenomenon of embedded journalists. For the first time in the modern history of war—and in stark contrast to Gulf War Part I where journalists were completely banned from the battlefield—reporters are...
Interviews with soldiers both on and off the battlefield make great color stories that should undoubtedly be a part of war coverage. But in this war, the color has blinded the American public from seeing the gravity of the conflict. If coverage of this war is to ask the tough...
The monstrous event was confirmed at Parkland Hospital in small, prosaic episodes. Two priests arrived to give last rites, and coming out of the hospital, one of them blurted, "He's dead, all right." That was the first bulletin of death in a tragedy that was seizing the world, and...
But the real star was the unprecedented live footage that emerged from the military's "embedding" program: allowing journalists to ride (and sail) along with units, with restrictions on what they could report. These strange embedfellows all have something to gain. Journalists want access to the kind of operations they...