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Embedded reporter comes away from front lines torn
Boston Globe
| 4/22/2003
| Scott Bernard Nelson
Posted on 04/23/2003 10:10:37 AM PDT by LavaDog
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:10:37 AM PDT
by
LavaDog
To: LavaDog
Quite a title. However, the story seems to tell of a liberal reporter who suddenly realizes how noble the military really is.
To: LavaDog
I'm sure the rear-echelon media guys are working nonstop to rewrite as much history as they can.
To: LavaDog; Happygal
To: LavaDog
Another testimony to the sheer genius of embedding journalists.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:16:13 AM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: LavaDog
This young man's rather full of himself, isn't he?
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:16:48 AM PDT
by
Mr. Lucky
To: LavaDog
The Pentagon was very shrewd in allowing reporters in with the grunts. They knew that shared danger would bring down liberal prejudices faster than the reporters could write about the hardships abd battles.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:17:29 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: LavaDog
Well, we're making progress.
We ought to invite these guys to the shooting range for a few afternoons.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:17:51 AM PDT
by
Gritty
To: LavaDog
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.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:18:01 AM PDT
by
Mrs. P
To: LavaDog
He put himself in the position of that age old journalistic question:
"Would I tell my own countries army that the enemy is on the other side of the hill?"
Well, this guy became an American and a survivor (even if for selfish reasons) when he was in this very situation. Im glad he did what he did (pointing out snipers), he may have saved precious lives.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:18:06 AM PDT
by
smith288
(Thats right, Christianity is exclusive, you have to love animals to be in PETA, is that exclusive?)
To: LavaDog
The question is whether the coverage I provided during the war was tainted as a result. The fact that he is willing to ask the question shows that his coverage wasn't tainted.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:18:57 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: LavaDog
Mummm, found out what real combat is like. Not the same as the movies I guess.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:19:10 AM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American Way! Toby Keith)
To: Mrs. P
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.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:20:12 AM PDT
by
Celtjew Libertarian
(No more will we pretend that our desire/For liberty is number-cold and has no fire.)
To: LavaDog
Getting a good look at the elephant does change one's perspective.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:23:31 AM PDT
by
Lee Heggy
(Spare yet effective and surprisingly well-coloured.)
To: LavaDog
"Look up Stockholm syndrome in the dictionary, though..."
Well, to be precise, the reporter wasn't captured, held against his will, threatend by his "captors" and with no hope of rescue. He volunteered, he was being paid, he could have left if he really needed to, and was surrounded by people of superior morals and good will.
He is not "suffering" from Stockholm Syndrome, he is benefiting from being in excellent company...something rarely found in most newsrooms. It must feel strange to him.
To: LavaDog
Funny that no reporters have ever been worried that by being embedded in liberal news organizations that they would identify with them and that their reporting would be tainted.
"Look up Stockholm syndrome in the dictionary, though, and you'll get a pretty good idea about what I was going through in those first hours away from my liberal editors. I had lived so closely for so long under such extreme circumstances with the liberal journalism school professors and liberal editors, that I had begun to think and feel like a socialist. "
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:24:03 AM PDT
by
mrsmith
To: mvpel
Another testimony to the sheer genius of embedding journalists. I couldn't tell if you had left of the < /sarcasm > tag there.
I would agree with your statement on it's face value. I think embedding journalists was a master stroke, and will forever change the way the Department of Defense and the press relate to one another.
The important point is that we have nothing to hide. Our soldiers behaved remarkably well, and were revealed by the embedded journalists to be the heroes that they are.
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:24:17 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(On to Damascus!)
To: LavaDog
Where were the headquarters Johnnies then, I smugly asked myself this week as I walked the former headquarters of the Iraqi secret police, now home to the US Marines' First Division. Probably drinking coffee, eating hot meals, sleeping on cots in canvas tents, and moving arrows around on wall maps.Dosn't this come off a little bit like a Hackworth opening?
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posted on
04/23/2003 10:24:41 AM PDT
by
_Jim
(ab)
To: LavaDog
Stockholm syndrome -- the situation where a hostage actually starts hoping the Bad Guys win. This reporter (a BUSINESS reporter for the Globe!) seems to feel that he was a victim of this syndrome when he started feeling warm thoughts toward American soldiers.
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