[Mrs. P]

In the end, it will be for someone else to decide. Big thinkers in both the media and the military will at some point begin to analyze whether the embedding program worked, from their various perspectives.

I can hardly wait to hear from all the big thinkers in the media what I'm supposed to think of the bias of these embedded reporters.

Did a dozen reporters actually die in combat? I don't remember reading that anywhere before. It will be interesting to hear how they are memorialized compared to the military. Gee, I'm so cynical.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Did a dozen reporters actually die in combat? I don't remember reading that anywhere before. It will be interesting to hear how they are memorialized compared to the military. Gee, I'm so cynical.

We mainly heard about the two Americans, Michael Kelly and David Bloom. There were a number of journalists of other nationalities, mainly European or Aussie, who were killed.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yes, about a dozen. Don't forget that you have to count the cameramen and techies that got killed, too.

[cake_crumb]

"Did a dozen reporters actually die in combat?"

I caught that too. As far as I know, three or four reporters actually died in combat, one died of an embolism, one stepped on a land mine at an abandoned Fedayeen military facility, two were murdered by a homocide bomber (one was a reporter, the other a cameraman), and two (? or was it one??) died in the crossfire at the Palestine Hotel during a heavy firefight between US and Fedayeen forces. That doesn't come out to a dozen, but there may be some I missed. The media tends to forget the public might be concerned with dead coalition soldiers as well as media people.

The deaths are no less tragic for the fact that they weren't all from combat. Looks like combat hasn't entirely cured Nelson of leftist hyperbole. He should have left that out, but maybe this is his way of proving to his bosses that living and facing death with evil US soldiers didn't taint his 'objectivity' after all.

[Ramzi]

"Did a dozen reporters actually die in combat? I don't remember reading that anywhere before. It will be interesting to hear how they are memorialized compared to the military. Gee, I'm so cynical."


Are they counting Bagdad Bob?

[jlogajan]

Did a dozen reporters actually die in combat?

Not embedded. But there were lots of reporters running around by themselves, not associated with any military units.

[lepton]

Did a dozen reporters actually die in combat?

That depends on how you define combat. There were a few ambushes, the two that died in the hotel, and some few I haven't heard details on. I'm not aware that any embedded reporters were killed in combat oe while part of a unit as the author implies.

[rwfromkansas]

Most were not American and often violated rules to get killed.

[July 4th]

There were plenty of freelancers who got into Iraq and were running around on their own selling stories to news nets. Several were killed, as well as the handful we know about by name that were oficially embedded.