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Article: Reporting from the sandstorm: an appraisal of embedding.
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
- Author:
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"The reasons behind US actions and the types of actions being taken are increasingly discussed in public and the media. The result is that military secrecy is becoming increasingly rare."
--Lieutenant Colonel Beth Kaspar, USAF
"A Bradley under fire cannot be covered dispassionately, like a news conference or a political rally."
--David Zucchino, embedded reporter, Los Angeles Times
On several occasions during Operation Iraqi Freedom, sandstorms obscured the live coverage for hours, and yet the television audience in the United States still had a clear and current idea of what was happening in the war. In an age of the continuous media ...